Thank You Ma'am

Author's note: This piece is a short response to "Thank You Ma'am"  by Langton Hughes.  The prompt to writing this was "What if this happens…".  I wrote about what would have happened if Mrs. Jones brought Roger to the police.    

After reading "Thanks You Ma'am", I thought "What if Mrs. Jones took Roger to the police instead of her house".  If this happened Mrs. Jones probably did not want him to be her son anymore, or perhaps Mrs. Jones was not in a very good mood when Roger tried to steal her pocket book, and Roger trying to steal just made her mood go from mad to extremely furious.  Once Roger and Mrs. Jones got to the police station, Mrs. Jones might have told the police man that she wanted him in jail no matter how far or hard she had to push it she wanted him in jail.  I mean just picture that sight of a larger woman with a teenaged boy dangling by his neck walking into the police station.

After about a year or so when ever Roger got out of jail he saw Mrs. Jones walking down the street.  He went up to her and she stepped back swinging her large purse ready to hit him but Mrs. Jones was presently surprised that Roger came up to her to say thank you.  He knew that it was the right thing to do at that time and he learned from his mistakes.  

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                              The Gorgeous Game

By: Donna Freitas

Pages: 224

Genre: Fiction

When Olivia wins a literary contest she is over whelmed with happiness that she gets to work with the famous writer Mark D. Brendan.  That’s until she finds out he is stalking her.  While this book may start slow for some it quickly becomes a page turner.      

What Happens Next?

Author's note:  This piece is a prediction on what is going to happen next in the Dead Man's Path.

Have you ever made a change and then later you regret it?  In the story Dead Man's Path by Chinua Achebe, Michael Obi the main character did this. Mr. Obi was just promoted to be the headmaster in the school he was teaching at.  Since he was in charge he wanted to change the school to be more modern.  This meant he was going to remove and shut down the path that connects the cemetery and the school.   Which he though was disrupting his school.  This did not sit well with the villagers. 

Mr. Obi was an incredibly remarkable guy with lots of ideas.  Obi was married and was dedicated to his school.  Since he was married and most of his calices were not married and did not have kids he thought they would do anything for the school.  Also Mr. Obi was a bold, cocky, pushed for greatness, and rude to the village.   

From what I know so far I think that if this story would to be continued it would eventually end with Obi fired.  Mr. Obi would be so ashamed in what he did and open the path back up.  If he did not want to do this we would be forced to by the villagers.  Once Mr. Obi opened the path back up the spirits and the villagers would still not be satisfied with that, even his wife turned against him.  The villages will most likely try to stone him because of his horrible actions over trying to make the school a better place.   

Character's Are very Important to the Story

Author’s note: This piece is about how characters change throughout the book. In this piece I am specifically talking about how Ponyboy changes throughout the novel.

You may not think that characters change from the beginning to the end of the novel. This is true for some characters in a novel, but there is always one character that will stand out and makes a difference. In the novel The Outsiders by SE Hinton, the main character's name is Ponyboy, in this story Ponyboy is a dynamic character in many ways.

First off, Ponyboy in the beginning of the novel was getting good grades and had no bad reports from the police like almost all of the other greasers. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny were the only greasers who still had their innocences. Ponyboy would get made fun of if the greasers were in a fight with the socs no one expected Ponyboy to fight back. The socs and the greasers did not get along very well together. Ponyboy's innocence almost disappeared until one of Ponyboy's fellow greasers said that he should stay innocent.

Although Ponyboy’s innocence was important for him to keep his innocence, this contributes to Ponyboy being a dynamic character. Towards the end of the novel Ponyboy’s best friend Johnny dies. Through Johnny’s death the socs and the greasers had a fight; whoever won the fight was better than the other group of people. The greasers won the fight. At the end of the fight Ponyboy discovered at the scos will always be socs and greasers will always be greasers. One will not be better than the other.