spell on him and he will not be able to catch or kill any animals again in his life. The fragment "Along about then, I would have shaken hands with a centipede if I had thought that it would help me catch a monkey." (41) again proves us he was an egocentric boy. Even after he spoke to his sister about the Old Man in the Mountains he couldn't see how much she needed the operation, he only saw what he wanted to see, his pony and his .22 in his mind.
             As the novel moved on I noticed that Jay Berry began to change a little when he was talking with his grandma about his sister because it was the first time in the novel when he actually gave a little thought to his sister's leg he said,
             I didn't like to talk about Daisy's crippled leg. It always made me feel bad, and there wasn't anything I could do about it. Besides, right then I had too many worries of my own to wrestle with. There were those monkeys to be caught, and a change to get the pony and the .22.
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