Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes [ NEW 2020 with subtitles(ENGLISH) ] || Best Animated Story (2023)

Introduction

An adaptation of the short story Thank You, Ma'am, a short story written by American English writer Langston Hughes, is a short story about a young boy tries to rob a Large Woman's Purse. The short story Thank You, Ma'am features two characters: Mrs Luella Bates Washington Jones & Roger.

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It was about 11 o'clock at night.

And the woman was walking alone.

She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it, but hammer and nails.

It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder and tried to snatch her purse.

The strap broke with a single tug that the boy gave it from behind combined caused him to lose his balance.

And his legs flew up, and he turned around and kicked him right square in this blue jeans sitter.

She picked the boy up by his shirtfront and shook him until his teeth rattled.

And after that pick up my pocketbook boy and give it here.

She still held him tightly, but she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse.

Now, ain't you ashamed of yourself.

Yes.

What did you want to do it for I didn't aim to you a lie by that time? Two? Or three people passed stopped turned to look and some stood watching if I turn you loose.

Will you run then I won't, turn you loose I'm, very sorry, lady, I'm.

Sorry, um.

Your face is dirty I got a great mind to wash your face for you ain't.

You got nobody home to tell you to wash your face, no, ma'am, then it will get washed this evening.

The large woman starting up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her.

He looked as if he were 14 or 15, frail and Willa Wilde in tennis shoes and blue jeans.

You ought to be my son, I would teach you right from wrong.

Least I can do right now is to wash your face? Are you hungry? No I.

Just want you to turn me loose was I bothering you when I turned that corner, but you put yourself in contact with me.

If you think that contact is not going to last a while you got another thought coming when I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember, mrs., Louella, Bates, Washington, Jones, mrs., Jones stopped jerked him around in front of her and put the happy Nelson about his neck and continued to drag him up the street when she got to her door.

She dragged the boy inside down a hall and into a large kitchenette furnished room at the rear of the house she switched on the light and left the door open.

The boy could hear other rumors laughing and talking in the large house, some of their doors were open too.

So he knew that the woman were not alone.

What is your name Roger? Then Roger, you go to that sink and wash your face at last he turned him.

Loose Roger looked at the door, looked at the woman looked at the door and went to the sink let the water run until it gets warm, here's, a clean towel.

You gonna take me to jail, not with that face I would not take you.

Nowhere.

Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat.

And you snatch my pocketbook, maybe you ain't been to your supper either late as it be have, you there's, nobody home at my house.

Then we elite I, believe, you're hungry or been hungry too try to snatch my pocketbook I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes.

Well, you didn't have to snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes.

You could have asked me a very long pause.

What else did you dried it? Again.

The boy turns around wondering, what next the door was open.

A woman was sitting on the daybed I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.

Then he frowned, but not knowing he frowned um-hum.

You thought I was going to say, but didn't you you thought I was going to say, but I, didn't snatch people's, pocketbooks, well, I wasn't going to say that I have done things to which I would not tell you son and neither tell God if he didn't already know.

So you sit down while I fix us something to eat.

You might run that comb through your hair.

So you will look presentable Jones went to the kitchen.

And she did not watch the boy if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse, which he left behind her on the daybed, but the boys would care, but sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye.

If she wanted to who did not trust, the woman not to trust him, and he did not want to be mistrusted now.

Do you need somebody to go to the store, maybe to get some milk or something don't believe I do unless you just want sweet milk, yourself I was going to make cocoa out of his canned milk, I got here that will be fine.

She did some lima beans and ham.

She had in the icebox made the cocoa and set the table.

A woman did not ask the boy anything about where he lived where his folks or anything else that would embarrass him.

Instead, as they aged, she told him about her job in the hotel beauty shop that stayed open late what the work was like, and how all kinds of women came in and out blondes redheads and Spanish.

Then she cooked him the half of her 10-cent cake eat some more son when they were finished eating.

He got up end.

Now here take this $10 and buy yourself some blue suede shoes.

And next time do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook, nor nobody else's because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet.

I got to get my rest now.

But I wish you would behave yourself son from here on she lets him down the hall to the front door and opened it good night.

Behave yourself.

Boy.

Thank you.

Ma'am, the boy wanted to say something else other than thank you.

Ma'am, mrs., Louella, bates, washington jones, but he couldn't do so as he turned at the Barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door, he barely managed to say, thank you before she shut the door, and he never saw her again.

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