The short story “Uncle Willy,” tells a story about a kind man, who had a few bad habits. Uncle Willy was a man who ran a convenience store. He was kind to children, and gave them ice cream and prizes. His neighbors eventually forced him to go to a rehabilitation facility, and when he came back, he had negatively changed in many ways. Eventually he had escaped, bought a plane, and died trying to fly it. The neighbors may have acted with honorable intentions, but had no right to do any of their actions.
The first reason for this is that while Uncle Willy did drugs, he did not harm anybody while he was intoxicated. He treated the boys who stopped by his store with kindness, and gave them free ice cream. Uncle Willy might have acted a bit strange, but his actions never affected anybody negatively. In fact, they sort of assaulted Uncle Willy but grabbing him by both of his arms and forcing him into Mrs. Merridew.
Next, the people in his town had no right to treat forcefully send someone to rehab. The reason for this was that Uncle Willy was obviously functioning perfectly well while under the influence of his drugs, and that he was an adult, which meant nobody had custody of him, which meant nobody police and authorities could tell him what to do. His neighbors obviously had no reason to do to Uncle Willy what they did, and also had no right.
Another thing is that if the drugs were not affecting him or anybody negatively, it would be pretty obvious that squirting the drugs would not do anything good for him, other than improving his physical health. This obviously didn’t happen, as when Uncle Willy came back from rehab, he had lost 20 pounds, had skin the color of tallow, and had forgotten the names of all the boys he had spent years talking to.
One might argue that Uncle Willy should have gone through rehab because his doing drugs was a bad influence for the boys he often talked to. However, it was obvious this was not the case, as the boys had no interest in him taking drugs, and often asked him if it was painful. This means that they boys were worried for Uncle Willy, and obviously thought that Uncle Willy doing drugs was just part of his character, and not something that they should imitate.