This is the first blog entry I've written in a while, so if it seems boring, please bear with me.
My favourite short story of the unit was "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. I found the conflict in the story interesting- a boy and a woman, both out late, both having done bad things previously in their lives. I know that Langston Hughes mainly wrote about issues of civil rights, and although it wasn't directly stated, I get the feeling that in terms of skin colour, the boy was African-American, and the woman was white. I get this feeling because while the woman had a pocketbook and a purse, and could afford to give Roger $10, Roger had next to nothing, and apparently no family to go home to, something common of African-Americans back in the 1920's. The way Hughes phrased the characters' speech gave a good hint as to the time of the story, as majority of the things the two characters said would be very different today- instead of saying "I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.", the way Luella did, we would now say, "I was young once and I wanted things I couldn't have."
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Love your response! I never got the impression of it being based on the skin colors. Because everyone else would think the story "Thank You Ma'am" boring because it's about a boy who gets in trouble, and then the woman gives him $10 in the end. I think you did a really good job, and you had no mistakes, I think.
Well that's an interesting choice. And no your post isn't boring. :D
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