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The Half Husky Analysis
n the short story of “The Half Husky”, through Harvey, Martin Lawrence suggests that individuals lives are heavily affected by the community that they inhabit thus everyone has a choice or a responsibility to help a person's life and should not be neglected. Harvey was a product of the community that he lived in, at a very young age he was a person who had never been noticed by his own community giving him a feeling of loneliness. This is further implied by Vanessa when she explains that “He was somebody who had always been around and whom I had never actually seen.” This further provides the idea that Harvey lives in a neglectful community that has failed to identify Harvey as a part of the community, but also that Harvey has a feeling of

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