Author's Note: During the writing lab today, Mr. Graf wanted us to write a few paragraphs related to the story "Thank you, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. This demonstrates a character analysis/development from the writing rubric.
In the beginning of the story “Thank you, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, Roger was a dirty, cold hearted thief. Rough was him homelife, where no one was there, and no one cared about him. We know he was a thief because he tried to steal Mrs. Jones's pocketbook. He had admitted that there wasn’t anyone at his house, giving off the feeling that he had a rough homelife.
What Mrs. Jones’s did to Roger made him rethink his life and society. She gave him love. Although it was tough love, he hadn’t ever felt anything like it before, so it didn’t matter. Roger was curious to why she had been treating him that way, so he hung around instead of running off. Another reason why he stayed was because he wanted to earn her trust. Eventually, he did earn her trust completely, and she gave him ten dollars to buy new shoes.
Now we know that it didn’t say so in the story, but Roger most likely became a whole different person. He could’ve found a job, been a successful man... there’s a lot of things that he may have done at the end of the story. This is what we’d think, however, because of what had been written in the story. Mrs. Jones changed Roger’s life.
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