A careless mind

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A careless mind
The story is about the boy, Nick, who’s together with his father are going to an Indian camp to help a sick lady. Nick and his father have a good relationship to each other but in the story Nick will change forever. Nick is young and inexperienced, and guided by a father who might put him between life and death unknown by the consequences.
Nick is very young and don’t K understand the meaning between life and death. The exactly A/A age of Nick is unknown but his knowledge about life and death maybe tells that his about 10-12 years old. Like a child Nick is very curiosity OKL but asthe further we get into the story, Nick’s curiosity disappears. When the lady is givenV(has given) birth to the baby, she is screaming and Nick doesn’t like it. Nick is not even looking when the baby is born. DifferenceOKL kind of things showsK that Nick is not so old. Nick and the other persons in the story are only described according to their actions and not the way they possibly look like. The people are not even expresses how they feel.
“But her screams are not important. I don’t hear...

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