The Burning Plain and Other Stories

Why won't the son help his father in "Tell Them Not to Kill Me"?

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The son says that he cannot intervene because “if I do they’ll know I’m your son. If I keep bothering them they’ll end up knowing who I am and will decide to shoot me too."

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