It's a Big Deal

Roger looked at the door—looked at the woman—looked at the door—and went to the sink.
Authors Note This is a response to "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes, abut the importance of the above quote and how big of deal it was to the story.

This quote is very important to the story because it shows an act of trust. This is when the boy starts to realize that the woman is placing trust in him so he has trust in her to trust him and he doesn’t want to be mistrusted.

When that happened I was surprised at what the boy did It made me think of what I would do in the situation. I Probably would have ran just out of pure awkwardness, but this is a story that takes a different mind set to understand. Most people might think about how awkward that would have been, but you have to think of it from a different point of view which is hard to reach.

This also shows the boys impulse, he sees a way out, but the woman put him in his place and he listened to her. At first he seemed he only wanted a way out. When he sees his chance, instead of ceasing the opportunity he thinks and he realizes the woman trusts him and he doesn't want to let her down.

Besides the boys impulse that made him decide to listen, the woman's confidence played a big roll. She didn't stand there and keep a close eye on the boy or look at him suspiciously as if he would run. She simply told him to do something, and acted as if she had no doubt he would do it. That made Rodger think that she was a good person and didn't immediately lose her trust and investigate him like a "CSI" member would search a room for clues. This quote basically began the climax of the story and may be the most important piece to this story.   

Responce for Dead Man's Path

Key Changes
Authors note: This is a response to Dead Man’s Path for goals for reading.

Obi is a character that didn’t change, but as the story goes on you start to think different of him. When the book starts out he seems very innocent. The development of the story ties in a major theme of the story which is loss of innocence.


At the beginning of the short story they introduce Obi as a hard working nice man that is assigned a school that he is to improve. The story goes on about how he is educated and how the school hasn’t been making any progress, and about how Obi can fix that.


Near the middle we start to see a different side of Obi he starts to think about all the recognition he’s going to receive and he is thinking all about himself and not the children out the village and the school which he is to improve. He starts to come off as a very inconsiderate.


When the story starts to wrap up Obi does something very inconsiderate. He cuts of a very religious path which is said to be the path souls of dead men walk. The priest comes to talk to Obi and tells him to re-open the path so the souls can pass on. He refuses and the path is torn up. This shows that the society is also now against him.