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A Literary Analysis Of Thank You Ma Am, By Langston Hughes

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7.3 LA Assessment In the story, a woman says “Now ain't you ashamed of yourself,” creates the suspense in the story. In the story, Roger tries to steal a woman's purse but failed and the woman took him back to her house to clean his face off and ended up cooking dinner for him and taught him lessons for in the future and then let him go. The story, “Thank you Ma’am”. The author, Langston Hughes, presents the theme that if poor, people think that it's right to steal. Langston Hughes uses parts of dialogue, parts of actions, and parts of thoughts in the story to create the theme.First, Roger thought that he could have gotten away with stealing the purse. According to the text, Roger was trying to mug a huge woman when, “the boy’s weight
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