Similarities Between Thank You, M 'And Evolve' By Langston Hughes

Do you think someone can ever change or even have the strength to do so? I read a story where the main character does something wrong. When he got caught, the unintentional victim teaches him a lesson and lets him go. Instead of doing what most people commonly do. One more thing that was different about the situation that she did was that she believed that he could change, leading to both her and his future actions. Also, I read the lyrics to a song where the narrator shows that they have learned to believe from pain, which shares a similar theme with the story but is expressed differently. “Thank You, Ma’m” by Langston Hughes and “Believer,” by Imagine Dragons from the Album “Evolve”. These pieces of text are realistic fiction. In both pieces

Luella Bates Washington Jones, but could not because she caught him. In the story, it states, “The woman said, “You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong. Least I can do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?” “No’m,” said the being dragged boy. “I just want you to turn me loose.” Roger is hopelessly trying to get loose from the woman’s grasp even when the Mrs. Jones is being considerate of what she can do for the fragile and unclean looking kid. Mrs. Jones is taking him with her to teach him a lesson because she feels the need to and can relate her childhood to his. She doesn’t want him to end up bad or at least help him understand that what he is doing is wrong and will badly impact him later in life. In the story it states, “ When they were finished eating she got up and said, “Now, here, take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s—because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet.” She gave him the money and before you think, “wait, wait, how can you buy shoes for only 10 dollars?” To answer your question, this story was written in 1958 and in that time ten dollars was worth a lot and considering that Mrs. Jones is not rich, making it worth more to the heart and in value. She gave him the 10 dollars even though she had

They talk about pain as if it is a person or the antagonist of the song, but in a way, it both harmed and vice versa caused the speaker to become even stronger. In the lyric it states, “ I was broken from a young age, Taking my sulking to the masses, Writing down my poems for few, That looked at me took me, shook me, feeling me, Singing from heartache for the pain, Take up my message from the veins, Speaking my lesson from the brain, Seeing the beauty through the..., Pain!, You made me a, you made me a believer, believer, Pain” The speaker has felt and been through pain their whole lives because of who they were and they still remember it. People mistreated him because of that, it caused him great agony, and he kept it in. As he felt more pain either physically or mentally or it grew larger he became a strong-minded person and he believed that his survival was not impossible, since she already survived through so much. His confidence in himself grew to a great degree. It would be easier for him go through more torture because he knows how it feels and how much worse can it get. In the song it also says, “I was choking in the crowd, Living my brain up in the cloud, Falling like ashes to the ground, Hoping my feelings, they would drown, But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and