"Three Hundred Pesos:" Story Analysis

Manuela Williams Crosno (1905-1977)

She lived in New Mexico and her works were inspired by this state. Her stories's characters lived on a time than one hundred years ago. She was an artist a teacher an illustrator and a poet. She won First Prize in a statewide writing contest for her article "Why I Teach School"

Summary

The story is about a men named Anastacio and his siblings Emilio and Berta. Anastacio was a miser man and since he was a child he dreamed to get trhee hundred pesos to own a store. When his siblings came to ask him for money, he refused and then he blamed them for what happened with his corn. At the end of the story he collected the money but he died.

Analyze of the Story

• Conflict:

Anastacio was a stingy man because he wanted to earn money to own a store.

• Rising Action:

1. Emilio asked Anastacio for money to buy medicine but Anastacio refused.
2. A storm destroyed Anastacio's field.
3. Anastacio planted his corn again.
4. Berta asked Anastacio for money to buy materials for the roof and he refused.
5. Anastacio's field had been invaded by a flock of sheep.
6. Anastacio had two hundred and fifty pesos.
7. Anastacio planted pinto beans.
8. He will sell the pinto beans for fifty pesos.
9. Anastacio had an accident.

• Climax:

Anastacio obtained the trhee hundred pesos and he died.

• Resolution:
  

Emilio and Berta will make him a big beautiful funeral.

Characters

Anastacio:He is the main character. He was a miser lonly man (but he had two siblings) who only thinks in himself and in the store he wanted to have. He was always working on his cornfield.

Emilio: He is a good man ready to help his family if it is necessary. He had a cornfield too.

Berta: She is the women in the family, she has her own family too and she loves her two brothers.

Moral of the story

The Three Hundred Pesos story tries to tell us that is not good to be a selfish person, you must to help people if you can and it is not goog for you because you will be a lonly person, like at the end of the story Anastacio was sad but only happy because of the money and he died alone.

I like the story because despite of the shortness it was interesting. I learned a lot because Anastacio was not a good brother and sometimes we act like him with our families and in your family you must to be helpul with every body.