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Please hurry From the narrators point of view, write a conclusion to the passage "The Carpenters Apprentice. "Start with what Ben might say in response to the narrator. Use descriptive words and phrases in your story conclusion. The Carpenters ApprenticeBefore Ben started to work with me, I had advised him to buy a quality set of tools. "Good tools areexpensive," I had told him, "but they will last for years. " On Bens first day of work, the head of thecheap hammer he had bought flew off and put a hole in a wall. One Monday, as we ate our lunch in the truck outside the Pine Street house, Ben told me that he hadmade a few phone calls for us. "The lumberyard across town can deliver what we need tomorrow. Wecould finish the job by noon on Friday!"I turned and met his eyes. "I think I told you that I dont do business with that lumberyard anymore. The last order I got from them had warps, splits, and four-inch knots on every piece. ""But if we wait until the other delivery on Thursday, we wont finish the job until Monday or Tuesday ofnext week. "I continued to look at him. Ben was thinking of his plans for the weekend, but I was thinking of ourobligation to the houses owner to do the job right using only quality materials. "Ben," I sighed, "how would you like to live in this house?" He looked up at me quizzically, as thoughI were making him an offer. "Would you like to live in this house if it were built your way, using inferiorlumber? Would you want to walk around on a floor with warped supports under it and sleep under aroof built with split and knotted wood? We need to do this right, Ben. You cant build a house twice. "A philosopher, Im not sure who, once said something to the effect that when you finish building yourhouse, you realize all that you have learned in the processand you realize, too, that all you havelearned you should have known before you started