Since sometimes facts are covered up, what we have seen is not true. Literary works, especially fabricated stories come from real existence. Writers usually offer many arguments in their stories, letting readers take a stand for or against them. In "Harum and Scarum" written by John Brantingham, we might identify three arguments.

The first argument is Cindy McPhearson kills her daughter out of love. We may find it manifest by tracing Cindy McPhearson's thought when she finds her daughter unconscious one day. Brantingham writes: "For a second, she had thought that Tiny had killed herself, slit her own throat, and the thought had made her grimly happy or at least less sad" (352). It is discombobulating that mother gains happiness from her daughter's death, but it is moderate that a mother doesn't want her daughter to tolerate suffering any longer. This is evident when Tiny's condition is described. Cindy...