THEEE HUNDRED PESOS
Plot
Conflict: Anastacio wants be a storekeeper, but to get this achievement he doesn’t help anybody, just for save money.
Rising Actions:
1. Emilio ask his brother Anastacio for a peso to help his sick boy, but Anastacio didn’t help him.
2. A hailstorm ruined all the crops of the town.
3. Berta asks Anastacio to borrow her some money to fix the roof of her house, and to stay in his home her and her husband for a while.
4. A folk of sheep destroyed all the Anastacio’s corn field.
5. Anastacio planted pinto beans, and when he harvested it, he wanted to sell them in fifty peso to finally get the rest of the money to his loved store.
Climax: On the way to the town, he had an accident with a traveler, in which he lost all the pinto beans; the traveler given him fifty pesos as a pay for the lost load, but a few minutes late Anastacio died.
Conclution: Anastacio siblings found his body and the three hundred pesos inside his shirt, and they made him a very nice funeral with that money.
Characters
Anastacio: He is Emilio and Berta’s brother. He dream to be a storekeeper and get his own store, but he is very stingy, hostile, independent, selfish and miserable with everyone around him, and he never help anybody, that is why everything that he did go from bad to worse.
Emilio: He is a poor farmer who has a family. He is a good person, hard worker, unselfish, gentle, very helpful and humble. He had a sick son.
Berta: She is Emilio’s sister. She is married, but doesn’t have children. Berta is poor like his brothers, and has a peaceful personality; also she is very kind, gentle, generous and helps Emilio who had sick his son Pedro.
Story Summary
In a poor town lived three siblings Anastacio, Berta and Emilio. Berta and Emilio were married, but Anastacio did not. Anastacio dreamed to be a storekeeper, but he needed to save three hundred pesos. Then for many years he tried to do it, but during that time he became a very stingy and miserable person. One time his brother Emilio came to ask him for a peso to help his sick son, but he didn’t help him. After that Anastacio saw a black bird, and that night was a hailstorm, and it destroyed all the crops of the territory. Another day his sister Berta asked him for some money and to stay in his house for a while, because a big three destroyed the roof of her house, but like with Emilio’s son, he said no. When she was leaving his house, he saw her shadow as a huge bird, and he had bad feelings about it. So, that same night his field was ruined by a flock of sheep, and he blame his relatives for all the bad things happened. Then he planted a crop of pinto beans to sell them in fifty pesos that was all he needs to finally get the three hundred pesos to own his store. In fall, he harvested and prepared the pinto beans to go and sell then in the town, but he wasn’t happy because he began to think about all the care a store requires, and now all his relative would want to come and take his store like their own. When Anastacio was on the way to sell his pinto beans he got an accident with a traveler, and he had a strong hit in his chest and head. Also he lost all the load of pinto beans. Then the traveler paid him fifty pesos for destroy the pinto beans, but he was so injure and he died some minutes later. So he got the three hundred pesos, but never got his loved store. Then Emilio and Berta found their brother’s horses, and near of them was the death body of Anastacio. After that they found the money into his shirt, and they made a beauty funeral for him with those three hundred pesos.
