Deconstructing Thanksgiving, Ma'amThere are a million acts of kindness every day. A young person pays a compliment to a stranger or a teacher brightens a student's morning. But in the world we live in today, these acts are rare. In this story Thank You, Madam, the boy, by mysterious luck, is deceived by the woman from whom he was trying to steal a bag. His actions towards the boy following the incident may have seemed very kind and understanding, but the boy needs more solid punishment. He needs a discipline that shows him that, no matter how complicated life is, there won't always be someone to lean on and depend on. The first and most important thing that will come to mind when reading this story is how thoughtful Mrs. Luella Bates is. Washington Jones was, who took in the boy and raised him; he tried to teach him between right and wrong. It gave him food, pleasant conversation, and even a chance to escape, which he chose not to take, but these methods are still an unethical way of handling the situation. If a boy were to approach an ordinary woman on the street, that victim would not be as sensitive as Mrs. Jones was to the boy she caught. Teaching a young person that if you steal you will receive special treatment is not an effective punishment method. First of all, the boy told Mrs. Jones that he had tried to steal her purse for a reason, to buy blue suede. shoes for himself. She then responds, "Well, you didn't have to rip out my wallet to buy some blue suede shoes... You could have just asked me." There are many bad choices of judgments made in this comment, mainly because the outcome of the situation would almost never occur in the real world. The boy will now, after being told that he should simply ask for the shoes, believe that everything he wants will come into his possession if he simply asks for it. “Deceiving” a child into believing that if you simply ask a woman for money or something that she will give you is morally wrong, and it is not right for the child to go through life having and accepting this state of mind.