Popular Mechanics

My group spent a lot of time discussing the possible meanings for the title of this story. We came to an agreement. Popular, meaning of the people, describes the people as a whole. Also, mechanics, meaning the uniformity and machine like, describes the unfeeling actions of humans. We see this title meaning this because of the way the parents behave in their argument. All they care about is themselves. There also was a lot of controversy on whether or not the baby was injured. I think that the baby died. The parents knew they were hurting the baby and they didn't seem to be stopping anytime soon. I think that it is safe to say that the baby was at least very injured.