The passage “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes is about a boy who robs a woman. At the beginning of the passage, Roger is a pickpocket. A pickpocket is someone who tries to steal things. The woman, Mrs. Jones, then takes the boy, Roger, back to her house, feeds him and teaches him that everyone makes mistakes, but also that stealing is not okay. After Roger meets Mrs. Jones, he is regretful. Regretful means sorry, or ashamed. Mrs. Jones brings Roger home, after he just tried to rob her, and she takes care of him. Roger notices that the door is opened. “He could run, run, run, run, run!”(168) Roger wants to earn Mrs. Jones’s trust, so he does not run, even though he had the opportunity to. If Mrs. Jones had not been as nice to Roger, he most
