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Mrs. Luella’s Pocketbook

This story came from page 3 of “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Huges. The concept of the poem is Internal Conflict. In line 3 of the poem, a woman called Mrs. Luella is scolding a boy for trying to snatch her pocketbook. The boy thinks of escaping with the words: He turned around, he could run!” And tries to convince himself to run with “Run!”. But in the end, he didn’t, and he stayed with Mrs. Luella and even managed to say “thank you” in the end.

The Photo supports this poem because it is monochrome, and this story is 70 years old, it really enphasizes it’s age. Also because it’s a vintage bedroom, which is where this poem took place, as where the boy washed his face.