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The Scholarship Jacket 'And Thank You Ma' Am

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“The Scholarship Jacket” by Martha Salinas and “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes are very different stories, but could they have anything in common? After reading both, I can tell the similarities are minor but the differences are pronounced. The stories are very unalike each other. “Thank you ma’am” is set farther back in times than “the scholarship jacket”. “Thank you ma’am” is set in the late fifties or early sixties, when blue suede shoes were popular. “The Scholarship Jacket” is probably set in the later sixties or early seventies, as it is a narrative and that would have been when Marta Salinas was in eighth grade. Roger is not as respectable as Martha. When he doesn’t have what he wants, he attempts stealing money. Though the circumstances
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