Courtesy is the most important word in the story, “Little Things are Big” by Jesus Colon because it’s important to his culture and it tells about the author. The passage tells us about Colon’s past, and what he has experienced. He saw a lady with her hands full and was thinking if whether or not to help her out. He feared of the women's reaction and caused the man not to help her out.
Helping people is a part of Colon’s ideas about what a courteous person is. In line 13 it states, “Should I help her? Should I take care of the girl and boy, take them by their hands until they reach the end of that steep, long concrete stairs?” As you can see in this quote, the man was worried about whether or not he should help the woman, because he was too