Thank You Maam

When a young boy named Roger tries to steal the purse of a woman named Luella, he is just looking for money to buy stylish new shoes. After she grabs him by the collar and drags him back to her home, he's sure that he is in deep trouble. Instead, Roger is soon left speechless by her kindness and generosity.

A teenager tries to steal the purse of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and is rebuked in a surprising fashion.

A teenager tries to steal the purse of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and is rebuked in a surprising fashion.

A Study Guide for Langston Hughes 's "Thank You Ma'am," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.

Gezirah Du Mortier's life began in tragedy when her mother died while giving birth to her. Little did she know the spiral of events that had been put in motion on that fateful day. Her father, John, a wealthy and powerful man, showed little affection to Gezirah as he held her responsible for his wife's death. He eventually got remarried to the beautiful and sophisticated Anne. But is she all that she seems? Becoming increasingly jealous at how Gezirah is blossoming into a beautiful young woman, Anne plots to have her kidnapped and shipped to America. After arriving in America, terrified and alone, Gezirah is first bought and then forced to marry James Black, a hard and brutal cowboy. She is then taken to his ranch in Arizona. Will Gezirah adapt to her new life or will she try to escape back to her homeland?

… As a professor in IIT Delhi is busy with his love, Biobull, a revolutionary bus that will run on human discharge and provide a somewhat funny, yet, inexhaustible alternate fuel… one of his students is busy with his-a girl thankfully. Tejas Narulas college misadventures and comic entanglements are a result of the twisted hand of Fate. Follow his journey across the nation to his love, aided only by his ingenuity and a trustworthy band of friends.