The Red Kayak Essay

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We make important choices everyday that can affect our futures. Whether it is deciding what to eat for lunch or deciding what college to go to, these decisions can affect our lives in many ways. Choice is the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. By making a smart choice, your health and welfare can be much better but if you make a bad choice, you future can be different than what you intended it to be. Whether it is a mild choice or a major one, choices can affect the way your life unfolds in the future. In the book, The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, the main character Brady Parks is faced with a major dilemma. He has to make a decision to either turn in is friends for murder or to live …show more content…

His best friends, J.T. and Digger, pulled a prank on the new neighbors that took a terrible turn. The new neighbors child, Ben, died in the midst of the practical joke. Brady didn’t want to get involved in this problem but he realized that the prank was actually his overall idea. He was joking about pulling the prank but apparently the other boys took it too seriously. Brady had to make a decision on whether to turn in his friends, tell the truth and protect his family or lie, not tell anyone and protect his best friends. His choice on what to do will affect everyone involved either for the better or worse. In the text it states, “It would just kill her to know what J.T. and Digger had done, and how it was all my idea…” This quote proves that if Brady’s family found out what had happened, they would be shocked and surprised but still glad that he told the truth and owned up to his mistakes. Brady decides to tell the truth to his father and ends up turning his friends in. Because he told the truth and did not take place in the actual prank/murder, Brady did not face any punishment but unfortunately his friends did. In the text, Brady states, “I just had to remember why I was doing it. Because it was the right thing to do.” This proves that Brady knew what he had to turn them in but was afraid to do it. He knew it would get his best friends in trouble but he knew he had to do the right

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