Thank You M Am, By Langston Hughes

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Thank you M’am
The book “Thank you M’am” by Langston Hughes. I think that Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones took Roger home because she related to him and what he did. She probably did that because she thought that when she was young she would have wished someone to teach her to do things the right way, so she wanted to be that someone for the troubled kid Roger, also because she wanted to teach him a lesson by making him feel guilty about trying to steal the purse so that he would never do it again. Late at night when Mrs. jones was walking back from working at the beauty salon a boy walks back behind her and tries to steal her purse because he wanted some blue suede shoes. He grabs and holds on to it but then the tug of Mrs. Jones takes

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