Samuel

I read the story Samuel by Grace Paley recently and I learned something important about mothers. This story is about a group of kids in New York playing in the dangerous area between subway cars. Samuel gets warned to get out of there and to stop playing with his friends in a dangerous manner. Then finally a man grabs the emergency lever and pulls it making Samuel, who had let go of the rail to hit his friend, fall off the subway and land on his head resulting in his death. Then it is shown that Samuels' mother has another kid. After looking at the kid she realized that no matter how many kids she can have, never will there be another one like Samuel. This shows the uniqueness that we all have as individuals and it also shows the bond between a child and his/her mother.