SSRJ#4

   I liked Popular Mechanics because even though it was very short it was dense. I would have preferred a little more background information on what was really happening here. Instead of just the brief window into these peoples lives. The author used good imagery to make it seem as depressing and dark as possible, though the whole story there was never really any positive notes. It basically just kept going from bad to worse, and ended tragically. Im pretty sure the baby died. Things began escalating a lot in whole baby kitchen tug o war scene, which got pretty violent, but I liked how the author ended all of the chaos kind of civilized with just " In this manner, the issue was decided". The ending had a similar style to the way that account in I Kings 3. The way they settle the dispute which was about to get out of control with the cutting the baby and half talk; but then Solomon just said here take the baby. The guy in this story could've taken note from that, instead of losing his kid for good.