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Thank You Ma Am By Langston Hughes: Learning From Mistakes

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By.Izzy Jokubaitis /Dec/20/2022/ Thank You. Ma´am (By Langstion Hugles) In life it's important to learn from your mistakes, and not to break yourself down over them. In the short story Thank you Ma'am (By Langston Hughes) it shows that. Mrs. Luells Bates Washington Jones, an older lady, helped Roger, a 14-15 year old boy, realize that it's ok to make mistakes, and to learn from them On page one Roger ran up to Mrs Luella Bates Washington Jones and grabbed her bag. But he fell and his legs flew up over him. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones grabbed him by the shirt. She made him pick it up, and carried him by the shirt all the way to her house. Roger said ¨I'm very sorry, lady, I'm sorry ¨ to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, and learned from his mistake not to take something that's not yours. This supports the main idea to learn from your mistakes. Roger said he was very sorry and learned that he should not have done that. …show more content…

Luella Bates Washington Jones was downstairs making some food. Roger saw that the door was wide open... ¨ He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run!¨ But he didn't, why? Because he learned from his mistake before when he tried to take Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones bag. This scene illustrates how to learn from your mistake because Roger could have ran out the door but didn't. This detail supports my main idea because Roger could have run, but he learned from when he tried to take Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones bag. At the end of the story the text says “The woman did not watch the boy to see if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse which she left behind on the day-bed”. But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner of the eye if she wanted to...¨ Roger had an amazing opportunity to take Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones bag again but

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