Deconstruction of Thank You, Ma’am :: Thank You, Ma’am

Deconstruction of Thank You, Maam There are a million acts of kindness each day. Some progeny humankind gives a stranger a compliment, or a teacher b right(a)ens a students morning. But, in the world we live in today, these acts are rare to come by. In this short story Thank You, Maam, the boy, out of mysterious luck, gets taken in by the woman whom he was trying to distract a old bag from. Her actions, following the incident towards the boy, may have seemed very kind and understanding, but the boy needs a more solid way of punishment. He requires school that will show him that as complicated as life is, there will not always be someone for you to lean and depend on. The foremost and most foremost thing that would come to mind when reading this story is how caring Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones was, that she took in the boy and nurtured him she tried to teach him between right and wrong. She gave him food, a nice conversation, and even a chance of escape, which he chose n ot to take, but these methods are still an immoral way of handling the situation. If a boy were to come up to an everyday woman on the streets, that victim would not be as sensitive as Mrs. Jones was to the boy she caught. To teach a young man that if you steal and you are going to get special treatment is not an effective method of punishment. First of all, the boy told Mrs. Jones that he tried to steal her purse for one reason, to buy sulky suede shoes for himself. She then replies, Well you didnt have to snatch my pocketbook to get some blue suede shoes... You could have just asked me. There are many faulty choices of judgments made in this comment, mainly because the outcome of the situation would almost never keep in the real world. The boy will now, after being told he should just ask for the shoes, believe that anything he ever wants will come to his obstinacy if would just ask. To trick a child into being convinced that if you just ask a woman for money or anything that s he will give it to you is morally wrong, and it is not fair for the boy to go through life having and accepting this state of mind.