Thank You M'am

Author’s note: I am writing a responseon “thank you m’am’ by Langston Hughes.

From his mind…

I had planned to take off full speed after grabbing the bag from the lady, but it snapped and made me fall on the ground. She kicked my butt and is now dragging me to who knows where. I am trying to get away but she is too strong. I think I am going to jail. She took me to her house! Why did she take me to her house? Now she is making me clean myself up. I could make a break for it right now but decided against it. I wonder if I will ever be free when she is actually feeding me. I tell her the truth that I just wanted to by some blue suede shoes. I can’t believe she is giving me ten dollars to buy them, and letting me go, and all I can say to her is thank you.

In this passage Roger is getting mixed messages from the woman he tried to steal from. First she takes him home and cleans him up, then she gives him money and lets him go. If I ever met a lady that nice I would want to give her a medal or some kind of token. I also think that if the world was more like her it would be a better place. Another thought going through his head would be to make something out of himself and pay her back. That is from Rogers mind.

C/R Children of the lamp

Author’s note: I am writing this to show a conflict in the book children of the lamp: the Akhenaton adventure.

John and Phillippa Gaunt must find a way to get their Uncle Nimrod, who is also a djinn, out of a ancient Egyptian jar without letting the ghost of Akhenaton out. After three days they remember that Djinn freeze in cold and their movements stop, as if they were suspended in time, so they decide to go to the coldest place on earth, Antarctica. They spend two days in Antarctica to make sure both Djinn are deep frozen before attempting a rescue. As they are rescuing their uncle a polar bear decides to see if there is any food in the jar so they have to get out quickly before Akhenaton can unfreeze and escape to torture the world. The twins are able to get out just in time to stop Akhenaton from getting out. In the end everything works out.

Michael Obi

Author's note: I am writing this to retell on Dead mans path by Chinua Achebe.
 

The ceremonial path of the dead and yet to come must never be closed or the Ancestors shall not be pleased. Micheal Obi found that out the hard way when he closed down the villages ancestral path because it went through the school and he didn’t want it there. Micheal Obi got his dream job when he became principal of Ndume Central School. Micheal worked his hardest to make the school perfect and modern. He thought it was perfect until he saw a old lady walk through the gardens of the school with no regard for it. Soon after he learned that it was a ceremonial path that connected the village to the graveyard and the village shrine, which the school had tried to shut down before, he shut it down saying it was a insult to the school. When the villagers had told him to take down the gates he wouldn’t. Even when Ani, the village priest, told him to reopen it he still said no, he would not have it defiling “his” school. Well he learned the hard way that he should always respect traditions. Two days after the priest’s visit a mother died during childbirth which the villagers thought was a sign from their ancestors to tear down the school. The next morning Micheal Obi woke up to find that the school was destroyed and the path was reopened. The next day after that a representative came to check on the school and said that there was a “Tribal-war situation developing between the school and the village, arising in part from the misguided zeal of the new headmaster.”