In the short story "Uncle Rock", shows how you have to protect your family, even if the person who is about to hurt your family can bring you great things. I think this because the baseball player could of ruined Uncle Rock and the mother's lives. At least that was what he thought. He knew it would be cool to have a baseball player as dad and have all the cool stuff, but he liked Uncle Rock. He didn't want jeopardize their relationship so he threw the paper away.He knew it would've been selfish of him to give his mom the paper, even if is mom refused. He wont ANYONE stand in the way of his relationships. Hes caring. He focuses on the family not the money and the cool stuff. Uncle Rock might only be a engineer, but he was caring, he would stay home unlike a professional baseball player, who be on the run everyday.