The boy in the story helped his family during the great depression. In the story the boy saw his dad selling apples and relized how bad his father needed the lucky 
10cents so jacob told the little boy to sell newspapers
with him and they collected lots of newspaper. Next the little boy called out about Babe Ruth hits homerun!  After that the little boy went home he put coins inside of the jar that left him with 25cents. Then the next day when the boy got home he searched the basement for a wagon or anything with wheels on it. Then the boy saw Mrs. Johnson pushing her baby in a carriage and asked her could he borrow it "why? you dont have a baby" the boy told her about the newspaper. After that the next day the boy had eighty cents to give his mom for the money jar. The next day little boy sold a newspaper to Babe Ruth and earned $5.00 and Babe Ruth let him keep the change. This shows that the little boy really cares for his family and loves his family.This reminds me of when my little sister wanted some hot fries that is called  chips and she tried to find change on the floor and I let her have my dollar just because she is my little sister and I care for her and me and  my brothers and cousins because sometimes no one have money but me. So we all let her borrow some money and we all set up a bucket and  we all can have money to go to the store and we did earn 200 pennies and we all said we will do this and we earn 300coins and we all shared it by getting 50cents every single day. So we are earning this by working together like the boy in the story.