Doing the right thing isn't always easy. Sometimes when you get the chance to look at someone else's paper because you didn't study for that test. Or you don't have any money for that candy bar you really want so you steal it. Making the right decision comes up a lot in short stories. Such as in "After Twenty Years" by O'Henery also in "A Mason Dixson Memory" by Clifton Davis the characters had the choose weather or not to do the right thing.
             In O'Henery's "After Twenty Years" Jimmy Wells who is a police officer has to
             decide weather to do the right thing by arresting his best friend or letting him go. Jimmy doesn't know that his best friend is wanted in Chicago until "the man at the doorway struck a match" that is when Jimmy notices that his friend Bob was a wanted man named Silky Bob. So instead of Jimmy doing it himself he got a "plain clothed" man to do the job. Jimmy gave the man a note saying "I saw it was the man wanted in Chicago." Jimmy but his job before his friends.
             We also see doing the right thing in "A Mason Dixon Memory" by Clifton Davis. We see this when Clifton Dondre and their friends have to fight discrimination. "If would stay, Dondre can't play," said the coach to the team. "The Caldwell Parish Country Clus is only for whites." The team decided to forfit the golf tournament. Sticking together is a way of doing the right thing. Also in "A Mason Dixson memory." Clifton and his friends have the conflict of going to the amusement park. Only whites are
             allowed to go and Clifton is black. So him and his friends stay back and go to a baseball game instead, which is another way of making the right choice.
             In O'Henry's "After Twenty Years" and Clifton Davis' "A Mason Dixon Memory," we see having to make the right choice a l...