The boy in the story helped his family by when the boy saw his dad selling apples, he didn’t tell his mom when he got home. In the story it said that he got a job selling news papers and every time when he got money he put it up in the money jar. In the story he was very helpful with his family by selling news papers and putting the money in the jar. This shows that the boy is very caring also. This reminds me of when I was watchin a t.v show and this boy had helped his family when he won a million dollars.