Creative Writing: The Day Of The Dead

It was a clear, dark night, everything was calm which was out of the ordinary evaluating the fact that the Cortez family lived in a very poor, crime-filled place in Tijuana, Mexico. Luis was the youngest in the household,which then came along his lovely, carrying sister Lizzy. Pablo is their very responsible dad, and Monica is their very determined mom. The whole family was planning on throwing a huge for Lizzy, which was turning fifteen on the month of October, it was a little terrifying because on this month it was “The day of the Dead.” Although the family had very action-packed ideas for the near future, but overall they were very low on money. The mom owned a little pastry making business made very little money which was only enough to
He was so excited to tell the family of what had happened. When he got home he sat the whole family at their dining table, when he got done explaining to the family how a figure offered him a wish, the family thought he was crazy! Pablo angrily grabbed Luis by the ear and took him to his room. Pablo gave him a pep talk of how to deal with crazy people on the streets, which obviously he was making fun of. Luis then told his dad, what if it is true? As many hours passed by there was loud knock on their door, Luis went rushing down the hallway to see who it was, when he opened the door their was a delivery that said, “delivery for the Cortez family, is this you? Luis then called his dad and said, “dad come here.” When Pablo came to the door the delivery man handed him the package and walked away from the family’s home. Next Luis and Pablo grabbed a knife and cut the box open, they then came to a surprise of ten stacks of one-thousand dollars. Pablo was was in disbelief, all along he thought it was a joke. Meanwhile Lizzy and Monica were out trying to get money loans from family members, back at home there was ten thousand dollars ready to approach them. After a long day of asking for money to borrow they only ended up making about ten dollars due to their family members being as unwealthy as them. Lizzy was very mad and upset which caused her to go to the family’s local river and cry it out because that is the only place you could have some privacy without no one having to judge you. At the river, Lizzy seemed to be visualizing the same exact figure that gave Luis the money, almost as if it had always been there. At home Pablo and Luis were getting ideas of keeping the money to themselves and moving out of their miserable house without anyone suspecting a single thing. This meant that they were starting to get greedy ideas that does not describe the family. While Lizzy was at the river she felt the discomfort of