The father called the narrator mijo saying that he was still his son, but the son didn't want anyone to wash him. He said 'I'm an adult,' I have rights,” Paps said, “everyone's right. A man tied to a bed gained rights. A man in prison has rights. A screaming child got it right. Yes you are right. what you don't have is power” (120). The father is trying to play it, yes everyone is right, but I am the father and your son, there is always love there, but suppose you respect it. However, the narrator feels hatred towards his mother because she was the one reading the diary and saw the diary on her lap. The mother wanted her son to pour out all his hatred on her if that's what he wants because the son wouldn't talk to her. After the wash that his father had helped with, his older brothers were out shoveling snow and he wanted to help them. He came out in his snow suit but was too weak to shovel, his older brother gave him a plastic bucket with crystals so he could spread it where the shoveling had been finished. Which shows a lot of respect from the older brothers to involve their younger brother in what they were doing and not make him feel abandoned