**Here’s my example: **
**Justification vs Justification: **
Mum wants her children to stay at home in order for them to know how to take care of the house by themselves unless their dad who’s not around needs mum to stay with them or find a trusted adult to stay with them in order for their dad to feel that they are safe.
Sample Scene
It was 1 pm in the afternoon and Mrs. Ojara needed to leave the house to run some errands. She called her 13-year-old daughter, “Cynthia, please come here."
Cynthia was busy in the bedroom playing with her younger brother Jacob.
“Cynthia, will you please come here?”
Mum sounds angry. She left the bedroom and went to the living room.
Mom was standing in the middle of the room will her handbag around her right hand and a pair of red pumps in her left hand. “Why didn’t you respond the first time I called you?”
“I didn’t hear. Jacob was making a lot of noise.”
“I need to go and collect something urgently for Grandma. She’s not feeling too well. Aunt Suzie is coming over to take it to her this evening. I’m going to be leaving you alone at home.”
“Can’t you take us with you? We’ve never been left home alone.”
“No. You’re a big girl now. You can handle it. Just make sure both the front door and the back door are closed.”
“Okay.”
Mum got out of the house and stepped onto the verandah. “Come and open the gate for me.”
Cynthia went and did so. On her way back to the house, she found Jacob standing at the front door.
“Where did mum go?”
“She went to get something for grandma.”
“Yes.” He grabbed the remote controls from the middle table and switched on the TV. He tuned into the Cartoon network. The show Ben 10 was ending. “No,” he said.
Cynthia grabbed the remote controls from his hand and tuned into the Telemundo channel.”
“Yuck. Why do you like watching soaps?”
“Keep quiet.”
“You know you’re not supposed to be watching that channel. I’ll tell mum when she returns.”
“No you won’t.”
“Yes I will.”
“You’re a snitch.”
“And you will be stopped from watching TV for a while.”
“Fine." She found a family movie to watch on the Mnet Movie channels.
The home phone rang.
Cynthia stood and run to answer it. It was dad calling.
Hello.
Hi dad.
Can you please tell mom I need to speak to her?
Mum is not around.
What? Where has she gone? Is there anyone at home with you?
There’s no one here. She said she had to go to pick something for grandma.
A dog barked in the neighborhood.
Okay, that’s fine. Be safe. Don’t open for anyone until mum comes home even if it’s someone you know at the gate. Only open for mum and no one else.
Yes dad.
Okay, darling, I have to go.
Bye dad.
Bye.
Mr. Ojara’s Office:
He set the phone down on his mahogany desk and looked out of the large transparent glass wall opposite where he sat. How could she? And then she chooses to keep her phone off. She doesn’t know someone could climb over the fence. I’m going to give her a piece of my mind.
He tried to get back to his work. The thoughts of his house being broken into with his children inside captured his mind. He picked his phone and dialed her number. It went to voicemail:
Hi darling. How could you? How could you? And then you keep your phone off. We discussed that there must be an adult at home at all times. You know the neighborhood is not safe. Have you gotten over what happened to our 3 years old already?
On the road back home:
Mrs. Ojara was in her Toyota Rav4 five minutes away from reaching. She glanced at the front passenger seat where the package for her mum was. I hope it helps with her immunity. She thought about Cynthia and Jacob. I hope they are not fighting.
She increased her speed and overtook two cars in front of her.
Back at home:
Jacob went to the fridge and came back to the sitting room with a bowl filled with four scoops of Vanilla icecream.
Cynthia looked at him, “You didn’t ask mum.”
“She’s not here.”
Cynthia went to the fridge and put five scoops of ice cream in her bowl when she heard a hoot at the gate. She grabbed her bowl of ice cream and ran with it to the bedroom she shared with her brother.
Jacob followed from behind and went to the bedroom with his ice cream. He continued eating.
Cynthia went and opened the gate.
Mum drove in.
She closed the gate and started to walk towards the verandah.
“Cynthia please come and help with grandma’s package and my bag?”
She walked to the front passenger door and grabbed the package and the bag. Before shutting the door she said, “Mom. Dad called.”
“Oh my. I didn’t carry my phone now that I think of it. I left it charging in my bedroom. I’ll call him back.”
Cynthia shut the door and proceeded inside.
to be continued, I’m not yet done
