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• Find an example of an archetype in a short story. Explain what the archetype is and the effect that it has on the story.

The archetype is how the character changes throughout the story, and how many other stories have had particularly the same actions that happened before. In this short story "Thank you ma'am" an archetype character was the little boy Roger. He is an archetype character because at first his intentions were to steal her purse from her while she was walking down the street, but as soon as she caught him and got him by the shirt and told him not to do it again, then she took him to her house and told him to clean up and she fed him dinner and then gave him ten dollars to get him something for himself, his intentions changed because whenever he was sitting before dinner and she got up from the table and left her purse sitting there, he could have took it and ran but instead he sat at the other end of the room, away from the purse and had no intentions on stealing her purse and running. A movie that was an archetype comparison to this short story is "The fosters". The reason this is related in the same way is because Calli was being fostered by these women, Lena and Stef, and in one of the episodes Calli was in juvie and no one wanted her but even though she wasn't such a good kid, Lena decided to take her in but told Callie some rules, and Callie was trying to find a way out and run away, but once she figured out their intentions were just to give her the thing she needed most, a home, she decided to stay there and accept it without making another bad decision.