Significance of Death

On the second day of November the sun rise brightly . The light reflected to the wet leaves due to a fog in the dawn. But it not last the whole day. At four o'clock the sky covered by a ash-colored clouds indicating an upcoming rain. On the other hand, the whole town's silence that time was vanished by a sudden voice of an public school teacher who will going home after a heavy teaching loads. "Help! Mang Juan is dead! Help me please!" Mang Juan is a popular figure in the street . He is a vendor of a homemade banana cue cooked by his wife named Nena. Everyday he spend walking around in every corner of the town to sell it from 7:00 AM to 7:00PM worth ten pesos per stick. Honestly , his income is not enough to fed a family with four mouth that's why his wife to earn additional income he everyday she ask their neighbors to wash their laundry in exchange with money. Trully unexpected, who could ever thought that because if a leftover skin of banana threw by himself will killed the old vendor. He slide , fell down , crashed his skull on the near Stone and died resulted to leave his family with torment and disconsolate. Meanwhile , on their small house on the Riverside made up with patched sack and pieces of woods Aling Nena finishing the laundry in exchange to one fifty pesos when she heard the news about his husband cause by it's death. She froze for a while seems like open eyes yet concouisness stole to her and afterwards cried a lot. She thought that time what will happen to them now. After five days the funeral of Mang Juan had passed . Yet his whole family still dolorous because of its unfortunate event. At the same time hopeless and starving because they already use all their savings on the expenses for the burial. Thank God , as a sign symphaty some of their neighbors help them and everyday someone knocks on their door to give a baskets of goods to fullfil their hunger. On the first day a businessman who live on the near white mansion ask her maids to sent them a tray of delicious foods. And when the mother put the tray in their dinner table it immediately ate by her and her child named Junjun, six , and Mae, four. They neglected to left for the other day because this is the first time they taste as good as that . On the next day , Don Tiburcio , a well-known baker on their town sent them a basket of freshly baked bread. And just like what happened last day they eated it as fast as they came without thinking to save for the other day. The third day came but unlike yesterday no one knocks on their door. Nena staring at the door and watching every shadows and hearing all the footsteps eqquipped with a prayer that this is what they are waiting for. But days passed but no one arrived resulted to sleep them with an empty stomach. Another day came but just like the third day no one came. Aling Nena wants to do something but she can't only a onion and ginger left on their basket. "Mom! Theres something on my stomach it's hurt!" , Mae cried. How unlucky Nena us because that time no one ask her to wash their laundry and no any single coin on his wallet right now. Despite of pain felt they fell asleep hungry. On the next day, the mother woke up early inspite of lose of energy because of lack of food to wait for the vendor of pandesal with a hope that it would allow her to buy and pay when she had a money . But when the vendor are on the front of their backyard she lose his courage and ashamed after seeing the persons who sent them a plenty of foods. After a second she came back and let her empty hands talk to her child and to say " Sorry." Breakfast and lunch passed with an empty stomachs but the mother thought for an other way to get food. At seven o'clock Nena asked her son Junjun to buy on the near store in credit. Despite of a heavy rain that time the hungry child quickly go to the market. When Junjun are arrived on the store he wait for a moment that no customer are inside aside from him . He get rice , can foods , and noodles and when it's the time to pay he said. " Oh no! Sir I forgot my money at my house and it's far from here can I just return tommorow to pay? " Junjun said. The man on the counter think that for a child with a body as thin as that with money it's impossible. He know that it is just a trick of the child to buy in credit. " Maybe you should go back and get first the money and return ." He replied. After that conversation Junjun went back home sad , wet and hungry. He immediately went at his bed because that time he felt a little pain . When Nena saw his son she quickly check it and discover that now it is suffered with a severe fever. Because of that the mother cried again and said. "My son sorry for having this kind of useless mother." Meanwhile , Mae is watching them from the doorway and said " Mom , he would die? " "Why did you said that his your brother." "Because Mom if he will die our neighbors will brought us yummy food again." Mae said with a genuine smile.