Manuela Williams Crosno(1905-1977) lived most of her live in New Mexico. She loved the state, and she used it as the setting for her histories. Crosnos usually wrote about spanish settlers who lived on the land more than one hundred years ago. Crosno taught english for many years. She was also a poet and an artist. Her articule "why i teach school" won first prize in statewide writing contest.
This history is about three brothers ( emilio, berta and anastacio).one day emilio meet with berta and talk about anastacio because he went to saw him and it was wear, later anastacio start to talk about the dream that he has since he was a child and is buy a store so he work and work but he became in a selfish person with everyone and in the final he die in a accident.
:the conflict:
the conflict is the hard- working of anastacio for do real the dream but of this he became selfish
the rising actions
the rising actions are:
1-anastacio try to complete the money for buy the store
2-the storm destroy all the corn in the field of anastacio
3-he planted again the corn
4-the flock of wandering sheep invaded the field and destroy everything
5-he decided to plant pinto beans
6-he go to sell the pinto beans
7-he had the accident
the climax
the cilimax is after he had the accident the other person who is envolved too came to see what happend and saw that all the beans of anastacio fall and he said that how much they were worth and anastacio said fifty pesos and he finally complete the money for the store
the resolution
the resolution is when emilio and berta find to anastacio dead and decide to use the money to do a beautiful funeral
the moral of teaching of the story is
if you have a dream do real but dont became selfish because of this and specially with your family and friends.
the story for me is very interesting and i like it because the story said a teaching that is not be selfish and because the characters and the place that is a family that live outside the city.
characters
anastacio: was selfish, a miser, a liar.
berta: a sweet person, a lovely person and a hard-working
emilio: was a hard-working, a honest person and a realistic.
