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Quote #10
He asks Todd which it really was—that he came inside because he was scared or because his mother came out and got him—and Mickey gives Todd a tap on the back and says, "Tell the truth now, tell the truth," and Todd is shifting from foot to foot. (9.182)
This is a cute scene with Robert's family, shortly before he goes off to be executed. He's teasing his brother about being scared to sleep out in a tent in the yard. Todd clearly cares about his stepbrother, so executing Robert hurts Todd, too—and Todd hasn't done anything wrong. You can't kill somebody without harming his or her family—which is something you wish Robert himself had thought about before he committed that murder.