Has a random stranger ever change your life before? Well in the story Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes, a young man named Roger gets a life check just by a juvenile decision that ended up with him running into Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. She takes him home and washes his face and feeds him knowing he hasn’t had care like that for a while. Throughout the story Mrs. Jones gives him a life lesson, and ends up changing Roger into a gentlemen instead of a criminal. Mrs. Jones changed Roger not just by brutal force and kicking him in his blue-jeaned sitter, but shows the boy that she has had the same kind of problems and she relates herself to him to show Roger that he isn’t the only one. Mrs. Jones changes Roger by showing him that he
