Everybody says that they want to be unique, but not many people actually do many important things that are unique. The two stories, ¨The Road Not Taken¨ and ¨Thank You, Ma'am¨ deal with the theme of being different, but they explore this theme in many different ways. Both stories show how being different from others can help out many people, including yourself.
In ¨The Road Not Taken¨ by Robert Frost, the story revolves around the speaker. The speaker is torn between choosing which of the two paths that they want to take. One of the paths is a path that many people have traveled through and the speaker knows where the path would lead. The other path, nobody has gone through, and the speaker doesn't know where it leads. The speaker chooses to be different from everybody else and choose to go through the path that hasn't been explored as much. This means that the speaker didn´t listen to what everybody else would say or do, and followed where they wanted to go. At the end of the poem it says ¨I took the one less travelled
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The lady does not let this happen and stops the boy from getting away. The lady explains how what the boy did was wrong. She takes the boy, Roger, to her house and cleans him up. The lady is kind to him and gives him food. The lady, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, tells Roger about how she also once was a poor girl who wanted thing she could not get. She ends up giving Roger ten dollars to buy him some blue suede shoes, the suede shoes were the reason that Roger attempted to steal the pocket book. This story shows how being different and trying to help somebody out, instead of just leaving them be, can be a very good thing. Mrs. Jones helped the boy, fed him, cleaned him, gave him money after he attempted to steal from her. Many would have just turned him into the police, but Mrs. Jones decided to be unique and change the
By showing sympathy for someone who did not deserve it, Mrs. Jones may have led Roger to be a better person in the future and to stop doing bad things to other people. Through almost unexplainable acts of kindness to a young boy in need of a second chance, Mrs. Jones proves herself to be the hero in Langston Hughes’ short story, “Thank You Ma’am.”
In stating this Mrs. Jones herself has shown weakness in her lifestyle.&nb now opened a door for the boy, in showing him through another statement that intended that it was still wrong to make an attempt to steal someone’s pocketbook, but you could still get away with the crime. From the events in the story, the most obvious and penetrating theme would be that Mrs. Jones taught the boy a valuable lesson by taking him in and pampering him. But, by using the methods of deconstruction and digging deeply into the true theme of the short story, you will find a recessive theme, secondary to the obvious. In “Thank You, Ma’am,” the apparent theme is not as it seems, and the true seemed like a strong role model for the boy, but truly set a poor example for the boy by convincing him, not knowingly, but in her sub-conscious, that it is admirable to steal and beg for things that you do not have and want. A very important lesson could be taught within either theme, and in the end it is a fight between two old enemies, good and evil. & nbsp;
...e female roles she was witnessed in her life, and she reverts back to being an innocent little girl by running back to Mrs. Grose for security.
In the story, Louisa runs away the day before her sister’s wedding. After running away from home, Louisa takes the train to Crain. When she gets there, she buys a tan raincoat and drops off the old jacket. She then takes the train to Chandler. When she gets there, she buys a suitcase and other items, such as some stockings and a small clock. She now needs to find a place to get herself settled. She finds a place to live, at Mrs. Peacock’s house, and gets a job at the stationery store. One day, Louisa sees Paul at the train station. Paul desires Louisa to come back, and Louisa agrees. When she arrives at her house, her family can not recognize her and thinks that she is an impostor. Louisa...
“And sorry I could not travel both” (2), the speaker is coming to a decision. In everyone’s life, they must make a decision to follow God or not to follow God. In this poem, the speaker has to make this choice. He tries to look down both roads as far as he can to see the choices that might result from taking either path. “Yet knowing how way leads on to way” (14), he knows that this decision is not temporary. He knows that once he chooses a path, he “doubted if I should ever come back” (15[VR1] ).
The choices made on an adventure make the journey more important than the destination. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, a traveler in the poem is faced with two paths which represent two different decisions. The traveler struggles with these two choices, wishing he could just pick both, and if he didn’t like one he could just go back and take the different path. However, when he finally comes to a decision, it makes a huge impact. The speaker realizes this, saying, ”I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” (Frost 20). When he made his choice and picked the one most people wouldn’t make, it changed his life, which makes the journey more important than the destination. The choice he made actually changed the destination ,which means it is more important because it affected the overall outcome.
Rodger tries to steal from Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones but he fails, so she picks him up and she brought him to her house. Where at her house she allowed him to wash his face, eat a great meal, and paided him ten dollars so he could buy some shoes he wanted. She did all that's because she made some mistakes as a kid so she wanted to forgive him as she would wanted as a kid. She hoped he knew not to try and steal anymore. So Rodger appreciated her forgiveness and kindness. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones did care for Rodger or would not have been so nice to
From the get go, the story shows the woman understands where Roger comes from. Mrs. Jones past made her understand why Roger was trying to steal, so she acts with knowledge of her past, and the understanding of why Roger did what he did. Langston explains Mrs. Jones past “I have done things too, which I would not tell you, son neither tell God, if he didn’t already know.” This text shows that Mrs. Jones stepped in Roger’s shoes when she decided not to take him to the police and take care of him. Mrs. Jones understands where he comes from and remembers how she felt and acted on how he probably felt.
In the poem, a person is walking along a path in an autumn forest in the early hours of the morning, when he stumbles upon a fork in the road. The speaker wishes that he would be able to travel down both of them, but he has places to go, and he does not have enough time. One is worn out from people walking along it so much, and the other is grassy and barely worn from fewer people walking on it. Although neither of them had been traveled on that day, as the leaves were still fresh on the ground, the speaker was compelled to travel the second or grassier path. The speaker fin...
In the short story, one of the themes that stood out was trust and how it is used with Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. Even though Roger has victimized her for attempting to steal her purse, she completely trusts Rodger. She did not think nothing bad of him but instead she thought if it as a blessing. Mrs. Jones thought Rodger was harmless and even brings him to her home (Hughes 1).
The first, reason I think that Mrs. Jones changes the boy’s life for the best is that she takes care of him and treats him kindly. My evidence to support this claim is that Mrs. Jones makes him lima beans, ham and handmade coco. Another, piece of evidence is that she makes Roger clean and wash himself up until the water runs hot. The last reason I believe that Mrs. Jones treats Roger kindly and takes care of him is that she doesn’t turn him into
It makes you feel as if your missed something that could have changed your life for the better. The title the “The Road Not Taken” itself shows that a person will never stop thinking back to their former decisions. One will always think about the chances that they might have missed out on. “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference,” this says that they did not travel the well travelled path. He made the decision based on his situation not others.
“The Road Not Taken” Theme In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost the theme is making choices can change your life. A reason for this is having to choose between two different paths. Another reason could be that taking a certain route will change things for you, preventing you from ever going back to who you once were. The final reason is that doing something that not many other people do can make all the difference.
In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost writes, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both” (1-2). These first two lines in the poem develop the whole theme. A traveler, like yourselves, has to choose which way he or she wants to go in life and whichever way he or she may choose to go, there will always be a sense of wonder about where the other road would have taken the traveler.
when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He