Authors Note: This piece is a text to self analysis I wrote about how Mrs. Luella Jones talks to the boy and makes him feel comfortable, while when adults talk to me they never know what to say.
Late one evening, Mrs. Leulla Bates Washington Jones gets mugged by a teenage boy. Instead of turning him in or even letting him go like a normal person would, she takes him back to her house. This boys is obviously feeling very uncomfortable, just I do when I am stuck talking to some strange adult I don’t know. You feel as if there’s nothing that you could possibly share in common, except for the fact that those awkward silences just make things worse.
Although I didn’t mug someone, I still know how it feels to be with someone you don’t know, and you don’t trust, but you are forced to talk to them. The only difference between me and Roger (the mugger) is that at least the person he’s stuck with finally says something that makes a connection with him. Roger poor, because why else would he need to mug somebody, but he only did that for some new shoes. Then surprisingly, Mrs. Jones says to him “I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.” To him, that means something.
Even though it may seem tough to have a conversation with someone you know nothing about, it can be done. Just like me though, Roger struggled with it at first because it can be really awkward. It makes anyone uncomfortable to meet someone new, but it is even harder if you really have to talk to them. It can be done though, it will just take some time.
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