Jerry the melnorished child from a mother manvile may be the most developed cherater in a mother a mother in manvile. Despite the fact that it is implyied throughot the story that jerry has multible health issues due to starvation jerry routinely demonstrates honesty and intelligence.
Honesty regardless of the period of time in question can be a rare trait especially in situations when resorces are hard to find. Jerry demonstrates honesty throughout the story. One of the strongist examples of this can be found on page nine quote "I ll pay for it he said I broke it I brought the ax down careless" . The fact that jerry