Thank You Ma'am
Storyboard Text
- Exposition
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- Inciting Incident
- Let go of my pocket book boy.
- Rising action
- “Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.” She still held him. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?”Firmly gripped by his shirt front, the boy said, “Yes’m.”The woman said, “What did you want to do it for?”The boy said, “I didn’t aim to.”She said, “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?” asked the woman.“Yes’m,” said the boy.“Then I won’t turn you loose,” said the woman. She did not release him.“I’m very sorry, lady, I’m sorry,” whispered the boy.“Um-hum! And 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’m,” said the boy.
- "Thank you Ma'am," by "Langston Hughes." : Ms. Jones was approaching her house around 11'o clock in Harlem but she was jumped by a young boy.
- Climax
- “Then it will get washed this evening,” said the large woman starting up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her.He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.The woman said, “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’m,” said the being-dragged boy. “I just want you to turn me loose.”“Was I bothering you when I turned that corner?” asked the woman. “No’m.”“But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”
- But Ms. Jones catches her bag in time from the stranger but from the tugging the purse strap had snapped and the stranger had tumbled over because the weight.
- Falling Action
- "So whats your name?" asked Ms. Jones. "Rogers, are you gonna turn me in to the police?" asked Rogers. "Not with that face," answered Ms. Jones. "Why did you steal?" asked Ms. Jones "I wanted Blue Suede shoes, and no one was at my home to buy them for me," answered Rogers. "You hungry Rogers?" asked Ms. Jones. "Yes" said Rogers.
- And then Ms. Jones had kicked the stranger right in the sitter and said... and then took him home.
- Resolution
- Thank you Ma'am.
- Ms. Jones tells the boy about his decisions in life and reminding him what could happen because of his choices.
- And Ms. Jones asked Rogers questions about his life and told her about her life. But not enough space I've tried.
- Rogers is grateful after what he tried to do Ms. Jones shows empathy towards Rogers and gives him enough money to buy his dream shoes.
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