Harriet Tubman Guide To Freedom By Langston Hughes Analysis

Have you ever had someone help you in life? It doesn't only happen in life, it can happen in stories too. Two examples are “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes and “Harriet Tubman Guide to Freedom” by Ann Petry. Both of these stories show the theme of helping others. Helping others can be a big impact on people today. Mrs. Jones in Thank You M’am helped a boy named Roger and Harriet Tubman helped free tons of slaves.

A theme we found in Mrs. Jones in “Thank you M’am” by Langston Hughes is to help others. One way she showed that was when she gave Roger food even though she didn't have to. Another way she helped Roger when she gave him 10 dollar. She didn't have to give him money. She had taught Roger that you don't have to steal

things to get what you want. Mrs. Jones showed Roger that people could be nice to him even if he tried to steal her purse. She also showed him that people cared about him when she made him wash his face when she brought him home. This is another story that has the same theme as Harriet Tubman.

One of the themes that Harriet Tubman shows us in “Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom” by Ann Petry is to help others. Harriet helped so much that the slaves called her Moses because she was like him. On page 132 it says “ Man named Moses running off slaves” and this shows that she is like Moses because Moses helped slaves escape and she also did that. Another way that she helped others was by helping the slaves escape twice a year. This helped others because she did this for six years after her story had been written. Harriet always help people, on page 135 it say from Harriet herself “Always to help people.” On page 133 it states that she also help by taking slaves to Canada even though she had never been there herself. Harriet was not the only one who helped on pg 135 Thomas Garrett let them stay in his house. This is only one of the themes in Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman showed us to help others and she is still a big influence on people today.

Helping people is always good, as shown in “Thank You M’am” and Harriet Tubman. People still will help you even if you don't deserve it. So as you can see lending people a helping hand has helped many people in our society today.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍