Thank You Mam

1)    Breaking news boy steals purse but fails tragically, Young boy named “Roger” tries to a steal book bag from Mrs. Luella Bates when the event took place the young boy named “Roger” lost balance and fell, Mrs. Luella choked him like a chicken and dragged him to her house and lectured him.

2)    Mrs. Jones is like a mother figure because she tried to teach Roger right from wrong because she has gone thru the same as roger and she has done worse things that is why she helped roger instead of turning him into the police

3)    He doesn’t want to say thank you because maybe he feels so ashamed to have stolen her purse because she helped him and feed him. Maybe he wanted to hug her and said thank you.

4)    My imagination could add family picture’s all over the wall a fire place and a ball of yarn in the floor.

            Everybody has their darks moments that they don’t want to tell but there is always someone that is willing to help because they have done the same thing as you. In the story “Thank You Mam” by Langston Hughes it tells us about a young boy named roger who tries to steal a purse. Instead she helps him for example when she took him into her home she gave a towel and said “Let the water run until it gets warm.” This tells us she felt bad for the boy. “Then well eat I believe you’re hungry or been hungry try to snatch my pocket book.” This shows us how she also feed him and many people would not do that they would just turn them in or beat them this comes to show how everybody has had a mistake in their life and they someone to help them.

1)      The setting is in school and during the night

2)      The main characters are Maria and Frankie

3)      The conflict is that she is a good girl and she wants to act bad

4)      The word lonely is important because she has no help from anyone and she is basically the mother to her brother and sister

5)      The promise is the one that Maria made to her Mother that she will stay in school and get a good education, this promise is important because that is what is going to get her through life.

6)        A great example of following your dreams and keeping your word even if others are pressuring you to break it is in this story. In the story “Dead End” by Rudolf Anaya it tells us about a girl named Maria and explains how she is tied between becoming popular and losing everything that she has work so hard on getting or keeping the promise she made to her mother.  It also tells us how hard her life is without her mother. She makes a promise to her dying mother Maria promised to “She would not give up her dreams of getting an education.” By making this promise challenging her to get a good education, she faces her hardest challenge yet. The challenge is turning bad for the boy she likes or continues being good and hope the boy still likes her. The boy Maria likes is a bad boy because even her little brother says, “He’s the baddest dude in the Barrio”. Maria is a good girl because Maria says” she didn’t want to disappear she wanted her life to have a meaning and that meant keeping to her mother’s dream”. What she is saying is that she will not ruin her mother’s dream for a boy. This also means that when she dies she wants to leave a good legacy. This come to show that only you can change your life and only you can give it a meaning.

Pedro Mondragon

block 4

5-23-16

Brother

My brother is sometimes mean

Sometimes he is annoying

But he is still my brother

We fight witch is disappointing

My parents used to say don't talk to him

But when they’re gone it’s just going to be us

I know he is sometimes mean and annoying

I cherish our fun moments witch is nuts

Even if we do not talk we are always there to help

We like the same stuff and sometimes we get into fights

We have always gotten along together

Deep down I know he is bright

My brother is always so grumpy

I am always happy and he is smells funky

We look alike but we are different

He is like a sloth I am like a monkey

He always teases me which I do not mind

Sometimes I laugh because they are clever

I get him mad witch I find funny

But we are stuck forever

Since we were little I looked up to him

He was my idol even though he dint care about me

He has been my role model and who I care about

Many say to not do that but I disagree

My brother is always been funny and I want to copy that

My mom says that I look like his mirror

But I kind of do because I look him

Sometimes he treats me worse than my sister

My brother has changed me

He changed me he taught a lot

Even though my brother is nice

He always thinks he is a big shot

The moral of the story is

Even if you don’t get along

Try to get along even if you don’t want to

Because at the end all you have is family