Giomara Castillo

September 27,2015

Class 1101-D323

Summary

     “The money” by Junot Diaz is an essay about a life event that happened when he was 12 years old. He starts his essay by describing his family’s economic situation, his mother didn’t have a stable job and his father was always losing his job. They lived in a small apartment, they never had any snacks, sodas or any good food that would contribute to their nutrition. Despite the fact that they didn’t have enough money to sustain themselves, his mother managed to save $200 to 300$ to send it to Dominican republic for her parents, One day they went to a family vacation and they came back they saw that their house was a mess it was obvious that somebody broke into their house to steal. They thieves took all the money that his mother was saving to send it to her parents but instead of his mother being mad at the thieves she was mad at him and the rest of her kids, she was blaming them for the robbery.

     Days after the robbery he was telling some of the stories to his friends and he noticed something suspicious. He saw that they weren’t taking him serious so immediately he knew it was them the ones that stole the money. So he decided to do the same thing and break into the thieves house to get the money back and fortunately he did. It took him two days to return the money to his mother he wanted to keep it, but he was feeling guilty on his conscience so he decided to give it back to her. He expected her to be happy or, at least, excited to get the money back, but he thought wrong she was acting like the rest of the days.