The interesting thing I noticed while reading the story Rollo at Play in the Woods by James Abott was the use of the word penitent at the beginning of the story on page 11 and towards the end of the story on page 23. I think this one word stuck to me because to me it was the meaning of the whole story where one experiences regret and learns how to set things right. Penitent means the regret one feels when they did something wrong and in this story Rollo and his cousin James felt just that. In the story the mother of Rollo and the character that seems to be a more mature play the role of leading Rollo into what the moral of the story is. On page 9 the mother says to Rollo, “Now it is my duty not to yield to such feelings as you have now, but to punish them” shows that she’s guiding him to what is perceived to be the right thing to do. I think that the moral of the story is to get children to right their wrongs and understand what it means to be fair.