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Making Good Choices In Thank You, M Am, By Langston Hughes

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Making good choices can help you in life’s biggest obstacles. When making good choices people can feel good about themselves. In the story “Thank you, M’am by Langston Hughes, the author shows how Roger made a bad choice and that cost him a lot “She was walking alone, when a boy ran up from behind her and tried to snatch her purse” (123).
Roger tried to steal the woman’s purse and he got caught. After talking to roger about how what he did was bad in the end he changed. Roger was able to understand that what he was doing was bad.
In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, we can also see how making good choices can help you. We can see how Doodle 's brother made a bad choice in leaving Doodle alone, “When the deafening peal of thunder

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