What i got from this story is exactly that same story from where are you going, where have you been. But it seemed that the pied piper of tucson was part two of where are you going, where have you been. The evil charaters in both stories had very similar characteristics with stuffing the boot with cans and other things. When we left the story where are you going, where have you been we dont know what Arnold Friend would do with her. But after reading the pied piper I felt that i was picking up the story. Smitty is the conclusion of what Arnold would do.