In doing the right thing the characters get their courage by their families. They were trying to buy something but no one was there so instead of stealing it, they were honest and payed for it themselves even tax! We know that they did it for their families because in the text it says “ For biondi it was his mother for gilmore it was his family who now called him “honest abe.” For james it was his father.” this shows that they all had family members to give them courage and make their family members proud. Also in the text it says “i want to make him proud of me. I don't want him to look at me as a waste of time.” …show more content…
The story is about him deciding on what path he should take he is stuck on going on the path that was taken. In the poem it says “And sorry I could not travel both” shows that he wants to take both both of the paths. The paths might represent the choices he has made it the decisions and he took the easy one (the path that was taken) could be lying and the one less traveled by might be the truth and it might be hard for him to choose to lie or to be truthful.
In Thank You Ma’am by langston hughes Mrs.Jones gets the courage to not punish the boy by having someone doing the same