Favorite part of Thank You Ma'm

Have you ever read a stor where there were 5 different conflicts at the same time? Well thank you Ma'm had that many. I like the conflicts in the story because their are so many of them. That allows you to look at the story in many different ways. It is also good because the conflicts were hidden and because the conflicts were easy to write about. My favorite parts of conflict are man vs. self, man vs. fate, and man vs. society.

Firstly a special part of conflict in Thank You Ma'm was man vs. self. This part of conflict started all the way at the beginning. It started with Roger, the young boy in the story, running. The running symbolizes him trying to escape his problems. At the climax, of this part of conflict, roger was debating with himself weather he should run away from Ms. Luella Bates Washington Jones, the character in the story that roger tried to steel from, after she tried to trust him. A quota in the story is "He could run, run, run but he didn't."

Another type of conflict that was dificult for me at first to recognize in this story was man vs. fate. When Roger washed his face that symbolize the cleansing of the soul. The sharing of the bread represents communion. Then they shared their sins or "confessed with each other." Later Roger became a new person, I hope.

The last type of conflict in Thank You Ma'm is hidden in the setting, man vs. society. The blue Swede shoes, the shoes Roger wanted to purchase, represent society. If you did not have toes shoes you were not excepted. A this time if you do not dress a sertain way than you are not excepted. A song that shows how much Blue Swede Shoes effect the community was a song by Elvis Pressley is called "My Blue Swede Shoes."

Thank You Ma'm was short and sweet but it still contains a lot of conflicts. Each conflict with its own message. Man vs. self shows that you can not run from your self. Man vs. fate shows how to forgive yourself. Man vs. society tells you that it does not matter what other people think as long as you like how you are. Will you take the advice given to you in thank You Ma'm?