Coffee, Snacks, Worms

        Now a day, many people choose to help when someone is in trouble. However, people use different way to helping other out of trouble.  “Coffee, Snacks, worms” by Karleen Braford and “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, the both stories are about helping others, because they both about a boy does something wrong. But they difference because the helping others in different way. Because in Hughes’s story is about a woman helps a boy to find a way to be batter. But in Braford’s story is about a girl tells a way to the young to be batter.

        To begin with, two stories are similar because they both about a boy does bad thing. In “Coffee, Snacks, worms” by Karleen Braford, there is young boy inter the shop, he use knife rob Kate.  The boy says: “I’ve got a knife! Give me all the money in the cash register” (Bradford 47). He is robbing someone that is a bad thing for a boy like his age. Likewise, in “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, a boy also does a bad thing. When a large woman is walk on the street and carried a purse, the boy wants to still it. “But the boy’s weight and weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped” (Hughes 4). Stilling someone’s bag is not a good behavior for a boy. Therefore, both stories are about a boy has a bad behavior.

        In fact, both stories are different because they helping in different way. Firstly, in “Coffee, Snacks, worms” by Karleen Braford, the girl provides a way to helping the young boy to be batter. In the story when the young boy says: “I’m gonna try and find a job there” (Bradford 91). Kate says: “I don’t think you will” (Bradford 91). Kate talk about the boy how her thing and introduces the young boy a change to find a job. She says: “there’s work around here if you want it, I guess.”(Bradford 92). Kate tells a way to the young boy which she thing is batter for the young boy. Differently, in “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, the woman helps the boy find a way to be batter. In the beginning of the story when the woman fined the boy still her bag she says: “Least I can do right now is to wash your face” (Hughes 1). She is trying to tell the boy: even here is no one wants to love you, but you cannot lose yourself that you can love yourself. In the end of this story, the woman says: “I have done things, too, which I could not tell you” (Hughes 3). The woman knows way the boy has bad behavior because she understand him. She wants to tell the boy: everyone done wrong thing, even a person like her. This is the way that the woman uses to help the boy to find the way being batter. Therefore, both stories are different because the way the girl and the woman use to help the boy is different.