When someone older than you tells you to stop playing around or you will get hurt and killed, then stop it. The short story "Samuel" by Grace Paley is about these four boys, Alfred, Calvin, Samuel, and Tom. These boys jiggle and hop on the platform between the locked doors of the subway cars. The people that were watching the boys play around, don't like them to play around because they don't want them to get hurt, but don't want to interfere. But then this lady sticks up and says " You boys will be hurt. You'll be killed. I'm going to call the conductor if you don't just go into the next car and sit down and be quiet". Two of them said "Yes'm" the other two blinked their eyes a couple of times and pressed their lips together.
Then "The pressure of air abandoned the brakes and the wheels were caught and held people standing in the most secure places fell forward, than backward. Samuel had let go of his hold on the chain so he could pound Tom as well as Alfred. All the passengers in the cars whipped back and forth but he pitched only forward and fell head first to be crushed and killed between the cars". This shows that the lady was right and they should of went home.
My opinion of this story is that it's a pretty good story and teaches us about, to listed to adults or in this case you will get hurt and killed. When Samuel got killed by the subway cars. When the lady told the four boys to stop playing between the subway cars they should of listened and left home instead of staying there and their friend, Samuel dying.
