Three Hundred Pesos/story analysis

BIOGRAPHY:
Manuela Williams, 1905-1977. Lived most of her life in Mexico. She loved the state, and she used it as the setting for her stories. They all take place in and around Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Taos. Williams taught English for many years. She was also a poet and an artist. Her article "Why i Teach School" won the first Prize in a statewide writting contest.

SUMMARY:
They were two brothers and one sister. Emilio, Anastacio and Bertha. Emilio and Bertha were very poor, Anastacio owned a corn field so he lived with the money that he got from the corn, and he was very stingy with his siblings and with everyone, he was saving to have three hundred pesos to buy a store. One night a storm destroyed Anastacio's corn field. He was angry but he planted his corn again. Another day, his sister Bertha came to ask him money to fix her house because it was damage by a storm and he said no, the next day Anastacio discovered that his field had been invaded by a flock of wandering sheep, the entired crop of corn was ruined. By spring, Anastacio had two hundred and fifty pesos, he needed just fifty more pesos to complete his goal. One day he was giong to sell his beans and he was hit by a car, Anastacio fell heavily against the trunk of a tree, the driver gave fifty pesos to Anastacio paying him the beans. He was happy because he finally had three hundred pesos. Suddenly he fell forward and lay very still in the warm sunshine. The next day Emilio and Bertha found their brother's body dead. They found the three hundred pesos so they gave him a beautiful funeral.

STORY'S PLOT:
Conflict:
Three brothers, trying to get along but Anastacio was very stingy and moody. He wants three hundred pesos to his own store.
Rising action:
Anastacio was saving three hundred pesos.
His corn field was destroyed three times.
He was hit by a car and got injured.
Climax:
He got the three hundred pesos and he died.
Resolution:
They used the money to give him a beautiful funeral.

PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS TRAITS:
Anastacio:
a dreamer
courageous
mean
selfish
Bertha and Emilio:
courageous
considerate
friendly
gentle
generous
honest
poor
quiet
simple

MORAL:
The moral of the story is that we don't have to be stingy with our relatives, because money is not everything that matters in life and you can have a tragic end like Anastacio's.

I didn't like the story because Anastacio was very mean with his brother and sister, they needed a little help from him because they were poor and he didn't help them. They should've used the money to do other things to their benefits.