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
“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] ).
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;
In “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, a boy attempts to steal a woman’s pocketbook but fails due to loss of balance. The woman, whose name is Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, drags the boy to her home. There, she lets the boy wash his face, learns that his name is Roger, gives him supper, and then gives him money. Although she did all of this, she still scolded him but not too much as to frighten him or make him want to run. Mrs. Jones took Roger to her home because she felt pity for him, and wanted to help him. But at the same time, she wanted to show him the bad in his ways so that he becomes a better person.
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
In the short story ‘Thank You Ma’am’ Langston Hughes examines the interaction between Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and Roger. It tells the reader the image of goodness and how it remains to be a personal decision. In the story Rodger, learns that life is hard for everyone, being poor doesn’t mean you should make poor decisions, and that people can generous if you have a real need. Mrs. Jones tries to show Rodger that it is not everyone should be punished for their actions, but instead letting it be a teachable moment.
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...
...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.
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.
For example in the second stanza speaks about two paths. One of these paths is worn and the other seems unworn. He could be talking about the fact that there seems to be two paths in life, one for those who want to follow the crowd and one for those who want to lead their own life. He decides to go with the path where you live your own life he realized that it is well traveled.
The short story by Langston Hughes “Thank You Ma'am,” takes place in a community that isn’t the greatest. Roger, a young man, wants new shoes, but he doesn’t have the money nor parents looking after him. Roger resorts to stealing to get the shoes. The women he tried to steal from caught him, but she came from a similar place in the past. The women, Mrs. Jones, feeling empathy took care of the boy, and paid for the shoes. One lesson this story implies is to put yourself in others people's shoes before judging or acting.
I enjoyed reading the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, since it was a fantastic execution of an important lesson. An aspect that I enjoyed was the straightforward, story-oriented structure of the poem. The structure of the poem had a conventional story structure with a beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning, the traveler comes to the fork in the road and decides which road to take. In the middle, he chooses a road and feels later feels regret.
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...
when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He