“You get, you give”(97), from The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli, means that you share your fortune with others to spread hope and kindness, so that allies and friends are made wherever one goes; the main character, Dom Napoli, shares his money and food generously and often, meeting friends at the same time. When Dom first arrives in Manhattan, he meets a “tough guy” in a alleyway that he tries to sleep in, and sees the boy chased away by the police later that evening. The next day, he helps a fruit vendor stack and sort his produce, gaining two tomatoes in the process: “Before he [the tough guy] could speak, I handed him a tomato- a tomato my own mouth was watering to eat…. This guy could be an ally.” (96-97) That one tomato
