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Yes Ma Am Stealing
Have you ever stole something? Roger, from the story “Yes Ma’am”, by Langston Hughes, tries to steal some money. At the end of the story Roger learns that you shouldn’t steal. The theme in the story “Yes Ma’am” is that you shouldn’t steal so the character Ro But in the beginning Roger wants money and he doesn't’ care if he has to steal to get it. Then he starts to change in the middle of the story he feels guilty about stealing, finally in the end of the story he learns that he shouldn’t steal but ask instead. These reasons prove that you shouldn’t steal. In the start of the story Roger doesn't care if he has to steal to get what he wants, money. Roger snatches a lady's (Mrs. Jones’s) pocketbook carelessly. This piece of evidence proves

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