Thank You Ma Am, By Langston Hughes

With Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, discipline was a word that was very important to and held importance to her childhood. In the story Thank You Ma’am, by Langston Hughes, a fictional story about a boy named Roger was poor and he wanted some shoes. While Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones was walking on the street, Roger ran and tried to snatch her purse. The outcome was not what Roger had hoped. And hopefully he learned a lesson. Lot’s of innocent people get caught doing the wrong thing and in the fictional story Thank You Ma’am, by Langston Hughes, the theme is to show the reader that there is always a better choice than the bad decision one might make in desperation. People have found that when trying to commit a crime there is always a consequence. It may come before or after
But there is always a consequence. It could be a guilty conscience or an arrest by the police. In the fictional story, Roger is a 14-15 year old who is very poor and has no parents. The author is giving a perfect example of how you can get into trouble because of the situation the innocent kid is being put in.Therefore, he has no one to tell him right from wrong. Although you would think that common sense tells you that committing a crime is the wrong thing to do, you would be surprised, according to the fictional story Thank You Ma’am, “It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with a single tug the boy gave it from behind.” As you can see the boy ran up right behind her and tried to snatch all of her money. It doesn’t mean the boy was evil. It just meant that the boy had no discipline and was desperate for new shoes. Lot’s of people that commit crimes have consequences. When doing something wrong there is almost always a consequence. Consequences come in many