In the story Stolen Day, a little boy encounters his joints starting to hurt, and he thinks he has inflammatory rheumatism. When he gets home his mother is busy so he waits on the porch till his mother tells him to go to his room and lay down for awhile. After an hour he comes back down and he realized his mother did not check up on him the whole time, so he now thinks that she does not care. So he goes fishing and tells himself that his family would only care when he were to drown, then right at that moment he catches a huge carp, and feeds his family with it. At the dinner table he has an internal conflict and does not want to tell his family about the illness because he is afraid that they will laugh at him. Although he still told them and
