In life, many people get told what to do in many situations, they don't think about it but it happens. In the short story “everything will be okay” by james howe. The boy learns that it's okay to be independent. In the beginning the boy wanted to keep the kitten. He found the kitten and wanted to help it.”A bath and some medicine.”He didn't want anyone to hurt it or kill the kitten. He goes down stairs and his mother tells his brother to take it to dr. milk and put it to sleep. In the beginning the boy starts to learn independence. In the middle of the story the brother wants to put the cat to sleep, it was a good idea to put the cat out of its misery. The boy soon realized what his brother was going to do o he tried to one up his