Do Our Actions Usually Affect Other People

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Do our actions usually affect other people? There is a well known scientific term called cause and effect that gives things a reason of why they happened. In everyday life we go around doing our business, but we cause a lot of things to happen during our everyday work. Do characters in books have the same cause and effect for their life?
The ear, the eye, and the arm is a book by Nancy farmer and it is about three siblings that get kidnapped and try to find their way home. They are the children of the wealthiest and most powerful army general in Zimbabwe, General Matsika. These three siblings are living the good life without having to do chores or like cooking or cleaning because they have robots to do it for them. One day the three siblings

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