Two stories, “Home”, and, “Abela Invents the Zero”, each have one main character. These characters both change their values. They change from their personal experiences. They both change from their personal experiences. They both change for the better, Constancia in, “Abela Invents the Zero”, learns to respect her elders and Yevgeny in, “Home”, learns how to talk to his son. Personal experiences affect your values. In, ¨Home¨, Yevgeny is an attorney that found out his seven year old son was smoking. Throughout the story he tries to tell his son to stop smoking the way an attorney would. Then he realized that he just had to use simple words and a story to get his young son to stop smoking. In the end his son stopped smoking, Yevgeny