Thank You Ma Am Comparison

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Ved Verma Similarities and Differences There are always many similarities and differences in many different novels or stories. We see some similarities and differences in “Thank You Ma’am” and “Home”. “Thank You Ma’am”is about a young boy Roger trying to mug Ms. Louella for some blue suede shoes. After he tries to mug her, Ms. Louella takes Roger home and helps him out in many ways. She feeds him, cleans him up and also gives him money. The reason she did this was because she also did things she wasn’t proud of and she knows why Roger is doing the things he’s doing. “Home”has a different story compared to “Thank You Ma’am”. In “Home” a family is facing a problem with their home loan. They basically can’t afford it, they are trying to make it seem better but they all kind of know on the inside they …show more content…

Eventually they get the news that they have got their house and they don’t have to move houses. Even though these stories might seem completely different we still see various similarities, but we also see many differences as well. “Thank You Ma’am” and “Home” have various similarities even if they seem like completely different stories. For example, both stories show the same conflict which is character vs society. We see this in “Thank You Ma’am” because Roger is going against society by mugging Miss Louella for financial reasons. We know he’s fighting against society because he’s probably either poor or an orphan, we think this because no regular teenager mugs people for no reason. We see character vs society because the family is fighting for a loan for their house. They are fighting society because Papa’s salary is quite less for the loan. The home loan association counts as society in a way. Some other similarities involving conflict is that both stories also had little bits of character vs character and character vs self. We saw character vs character in “Thank You Ma’am” in the very beginning where

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