Junot Diaz The Money Summary

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In the story ‘The Money’ Junot Diaz talks about a life changing event that happened when he was 12 years old. He first starts talking about his family’s economic position. He describes how his father was always losing his forklift positions and his mother not having a stable job. Diaz’s family lived in a small apartment, where they never had snacks or any good food that would sustain them to have a healthy balance. But his mother would always find a way to save about $200 to $300 dollars to send back to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where Diaz’s grandparents lived to also support them as well. Junot always knew not to steal because knew the consequences behind that action so him and his other siblings stayed away. One day in the …show more content…

He then knew he could not trust his “friends” or other strangers anymore.
In my family money was always a problem, but not quite to the extent of Junot Diaz’s situation. I live in a calm and quiet neighborhood or as people would call it a ‘white’ neighborhood. We lived in a four room house with a big backyard enough to run around and play. My father only went to school in Mexico until second grade, then had to work to help out his family. Now he works as a farm irrigator along with with my grandfather working out by the Oregon slope. My mother only went to school one year here in the United States, but then, she had to drop out because she had to help out with her 7 brothers and sister. Later on, she enrolled in college and received her Associates in Early Childhood Education. She works at the Oregon Childhood Development Coalition as a preschool teacher. The money has never been enough for my parents. They always wanted more. They did not notice that they …show more content…

They moved into a four bedroom home that had a big yard for us to play around. We were like little puppies running around with a new toy. It was a calm neighborhood where the only things that happened were across the street where the elderly people would live. It was a neighborhood where other people would call it ‘the white neighborhood’ because mostly all Hispanics would live on the east side of town and most of the white people lived on the west side. Of course I lived in the west side. I think my parents moved there because they knew the situations at the east side. There were always cops getting called for numerous reasons. They did not want that for us because they were scared we would get involved with the wrong people and in situations we would later regret. Junot Diaz’s parents did not have a choice on where to live because there was not many options due to financial problems. This caused Junot to hang around the wrong people who he thought were his friends, but they ended up breaking into Junots home and taking his mother's money she had saved to send back home to Santo Domingo. We were fortunate enough to distinguish the difference between good friends and bad. Your personality depends on how you are raised and the environment you grew up in. I grew up in the environment where everything was respected and everybody were friends. This taught me how to be humble and kind to one

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