Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Post 4
In the story "Thank you ma'am" there's two major archetypes. The first being the rotten kid who does wrong and is taught a lesson and the older person who has been there and done that and has changed for the better. In the post I'll be going the archetype for the kid who gets in trouble but is taught right. So in the story we see that a young boy is trying to take a ladies purse. She, however, is not a normal person (to a certain extent). Unfortunately for the boy (we later find out his name is Roger) the purse weighs too much for him and makes him fall over. The lady, having been at a point in her life like that once, begins to bring the boy to her house. He then can choose if he wants to run out of the house and try to take the purse again. Beginning to change, he makes the decision to just stay and eat and not take the purse. The lady then explains to him that oonce she had done as he, and how it was a mistake and dumb to do. He did everything she told him an she rewarded him enough money to buy the pair of shoes he wanted. I believe that without this archetype that the story wouldn't make sense. If the boy was nice, how would he be taught to do no wrong? It simply just makes sense to have this archetype in this story.
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I agree with you because the two main archetypes in the story are Roger and the old lady named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. Like the reason she helps Roger learn a lesson and takes care of him for the rest of the day is because she use to be like him. And that he learns the lesson when the story end and then he wants to say thank you but he can’t. An example of this to another story would be like in supernatural Crowley is a demand and then is supposed to be bad but turns good. So in conclusion, Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones make good plot and character archetype.
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