Mom Helped Me Took Him Food By Kevin Stootts Analysis

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Kevin Stotts’ essay shows family conflict from lack of sensitivity of emotions and communication among the family members. (Rather awkwardly expressed.) The mother’s reaction to the father’s decision shows a lack of integrity when the father states “don’t feed him or he’ll stay” and the mother’s reaction is undermining the father’s decision as it states in the text “Mom helped me sneak him food.” (No, you are putting the supporting evidence into the topic sentence itself.) which indicates the dearth of integrity and trust which leads to lack of communication between the family members. As Luke 16:10 states "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” In this essay,(Avoid such unnecessary verbiage.) it shows the dearth of integrity and trust which causes a lack of communication between the members of the family.(Here you are simply being redundant.) If there isn’t integrity …show more content…

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