“Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be.” In the short story A Girl by Lindsay Hunter, leading by example is one of the vital points the author makes. Hunter demonstrates this by showing how the practice of negligent parenting leads to devastating outcomes. Hunters descriptions of Dee’s inattentive upbringing is implied throughout the story. Because the story is narrated by one of her male classmates, it is told from the first-person point of view. The narrator revealed that Dee learned her licentious behaviors from her mother by saying, “Her mama was the town skank, so you couldn’t take her all that seriously when her girl went missing.” (Hunter 2) The narrator also mentions how he hadn’t seen Dee’s father in