Have you ever done something that you regretted later in life? In “The Un-numbing of Cory Willhouse” by Virgina Euwer Wolff, Cory tries to make up for his early mistakes. On Halloween night, when Cory was nine years old, he and three other friends robbed Kim's Market and Grocery. Since that night, Cory has lived with guilt. One morning, after learning how the store burned, he decides to act. For a few weeks, he helped rebuild the store. After confessing to Mr. Kim why he is helping, Cory is left with guilt that never goes away. The theme recognizing what you did wrong by telling the truth is the morally right thing to do is represented in the story through the protagonist, conflict, and climax. The protagonist, Cory Willhouse, is a great example of someone who ends up telling the truth because of his moral compass. After hearing about Kim's market burning on the radio, Cory had flashbacks to him and his friends robbing the market and what an immature person he had been. Cory later arrives at a...