When Willie asks why she had to be so exact with her measurement, she replies saying “It’s on the box, so you can believe what it says,” and then she explains how scientists study people and that they are always right. Soon after, when Willie offers the begging man a piece of cake, just like his mother, he measures an exact ½ piece of cake. When the man asks him why he was doing that, he tells the man what his mother told him about the box. However the man insists that the writing on the box are lies and that Willie should give the man the amount of cake that he thinks the man should have. So Willie cuts the man a bigger piece and he literally learns how to ‘think outside the
When Willie asks why she had to be so exact with her measurement, she replies saying “It’s on the box, so you can believe what it says,” and then she explains how scientists study people and that they are always right. Soon after, when Willie offers the begging man a piece of cake, just like his mother, he measures an exact ½ piece of cake. When the man asks him why he was doing that, he tells the man what his mother told him about the box. However the man insists that the writing on the box are lies and that Willie should give the man the amount of cake that he thinks the man should have. So Willie cuts the man a bigger piece and he literally learns how to ‘think outside the