What would you do if someone came up from behind you and tried to steal your purse? Would you make them suffer or help them understand stealing is wrong by showing sympathy and kindness? In Langston Hughes "Thank You M'am'," he uses conflict and imagery to express the theme of giving and understanding by showing compassion.

In the story a boy named Roger decides to meet Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones by trying to grab her purse and take off. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful. She asked him, " Was I bothering you when I turned that corner"" He replied saying "No'm." Here is where the author shows and uses conflict. She replies to him saying, "But you put yourself in contact with me, if you think that that contact is not going to last a while, you got another thought coming..." The average person would not even think of...