The man in the well

At the very beginning when the person said that “ I think it’s very important that we decided not to help him” I was wondering why you wouldn’t help the man in the well. I found it hard to believe that a group of little kids wouldn’t want to help a person that was in trouble. There was no motivation for not helping the man, they could of went and told their parents and saved the man. They were doing nothing wrong, they would be known as almost heroes but instead they decided to lie to him and give him hope.
On the pg. 22 after lying to the man again, tell him help is coming the narrator says “ I don’t think anyone smiled at how easy it was to deceive him—this is was too important.” While reading this I was think that they knew it was important and they knew they should help but wouldn’t. The only reason I could see of why they wouldn’t help is that they were treating it as a game. The man in the well gave them something to do for a few days and I guess that was more important than actually helping him. I just keep wonder what the man in the well was thinking, there he is stuck in the well with people talking to him but no one is helping him. They keep telling him that people were on the way to help but after awhile he knows it was just a lie. Have people around talking but know helping would something really hard to deal with while being trapped in the well. I found myself sympathizing for the man the whole time.
When the children bring him food I water it just made me wonder more and more of why didn’t they get help. They cared enough to get him food but would just tell their parents. On pg. 24 the narrator says “we could hear him shouting for awhile, and we were afraid someone might hear” Again why didn’t children want the man to be saved from the well? They just kept visiting everyday and giving him hope. The children then seemed to get upset when Aaron said everyone’s names to the man the well. I was wondering if Aaron felt bad for what they were doing and wanted to help him or was he just saying the names. The man in the well then called everyone’s name and tried to talk to them and seem liked they made all the children feel a little guilty. I thought for sure the children were going to help him then but then they just left them there and never came back.
I don’t know if the author was using this as example about the little things can make the biggest difference. There are many little things you can do that would make a big difference and help someone out, but there are many people who don’t do these things. The littlest thing in the world for you to do could change the world for someone but people don’t do it. The children never thought of how the man the well was feeling or put themselves in his shoes. I think I author might have been trying say that many people know what the right thing is but they still don’t do it.