How To Take Responsibility In Borden Deal's The Taste Of Melon

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The Taste of Melon In the short story of The Taste of Melon by Borden Deal. Taking responsibility for your action is often difficult but it is the right thing to do for what you have caused. To be forgiven is not as easy as earning their trusts. Often protagonist have to decide whether to make their decisions right even though it is difficult. Once you have done something you decide to do you can’t go back, after you have done the impossible you can feel a bit of regret in a way, and to make it up for it you have to take the responsibility and do the right thing. In the short story of The Taste of Melon, Sam is a protagonist who moved in to city sides and met Freddy Gray and J.D. They have a game about eating melons. Sam isn’t too close

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