Thank You Ma Am By Langston Hais

Have you ever had somebody try to steal something from you? You don’t see that every day! This story is from the book,” Thank You Ma’am”. The author's name is Langston Hughis. The main characters name ips Roger. He is a skinny, weak kid. The claim is Roger learns to think before he does. The three reasons why Roger learns to think before he does are as follows, there are always consequences for one's actions, actions always affect others, and forgiveness.

To start off, Roger learns to think before he does things due to the consequences of his actions. In this story he was trying to steal a woman's purse. His consequence was getting kicked in the stomach for trying to steal this purse. Another consequence was while he was trying to run away with her purse he fell to the ground, because he was too weak and skinny making him drop the purse. After she helped him up he took the time to listen to what she wanted to teach him about life and the right path to follow. And in the end he was rewarded with a good consequence of food and some money. Roger learns to think because there are always consequences one’s actions.
Roger took the time to listens to the woman teaching him life lessons because if he did not listen she could of landed him in big trouble for his choice to steal her purse. Another example is how she acted with kindness. Whatever she did knocked some sense into Roger, because if she didn’t act with kindness she might of had him put in jail. Finally the things she gave to him helped change his life for