Sixty Acres

    The protagonist Lee Waite in the short story Sixty Acres by Raymond Carver is faced with making two important decisions. The first is if he should report the the two hunters, which are kids, who are shooting animals on his property. He decides to let the kids go rather than reporting them to the police. The second is if he should lease some of his land to some of the duck hunting clubs. He contemplates this but never did answer.

The first shows that Lee is a kind man who cares more about people than the animals that they were hunting. The second shows that he is a man who will do something if it helps his family. Like Lee everyone has had to make hard decisions, even I have. One if the decisions that I had to make was wether to move to a new town or not. It meant that I had to leave my friends but I would live somewhere better. Well, I chose to move. Luckily I am only about 2 hours away from them so it is a lot easier to visit then you would think.