Jeremy, Eric’s five-year-old child, was playing in the backyard when his neighbor, an elderly woman named Helen, went outside to sit down. Jeremy pulled the lawn chair away just before Helen sat down. Helen was unable to catch herself and fell to the ground. As a result, she fractured her hip. Jeremy did not intend to hurt Helen and did not believe she would be hurt. The child was aware, however, that if he pulled away the chair as Helen was sitting down, she would almost certainly land on the ground.

A.) Would the legal outcome be different if the child had been running in the yard and tripped over the chair just as Helen was sitting down, resulting in the same injury to her? Explain your answer.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator