Mexican family in the celebration of the dead
Introduction
The story presents us with a Mexican family, celebrating the day of the dead, the story is narrated by a family member who does not specify his name, if he is a man or woman or his age, the story begins with the question. Do we have totake Toria? Toria is the daughter of her mother’s couple, who has prepared everything for the visit to the pantheon of that day, (buckets, materials and flowers) inside a bocho. He raises us as everything changed since death died, the day the dead came alive, the narrator character explains that there are no deaths alive, they are only animated dead.
Developing
The family is made up of the main character (who tells the story), his mother, his mother’s couple, the daughter of this one named Toria and Victoria daughter of both, Victoria did not like to go to the pantheon arguing that he does not want to workOn a day free and less for the dead which made a discussion begin between her and her mother where her mother emphasizes that they are not only dead, but their dead (Dad Ignacio, Conchita and the twins Roberto and Juan). From the fact that the dead were encouraged the way death changed, the business not only falls on the flowers.
If not also in the tlapalías where they put chains, reinforcements and hooks on offer, in the cemeteries the tombs evolved in the same way, now bars were put or some families decided to place them between acrylic walls, which I know yellowish with the sun’s lightning, his mother told him that this breaks with the traditions, that the traditional were the chains and masks which were adorned with messages, handmade paintings and big smiles so that they look happy, an element that cannot be missing from the changeThey are the formaldehyde jogs to preserve the meats of the deceased.
Another big business is armor or bibs to cover decomposition meats, the business was actually in those of children, since they were the best selling, armor can be bought in parts and payments. The cities within the history that are exposed to us are under total crime and insecurity, firearms are common to children in schools are taught basic management and how to shoot 3000 bullets from a machine gun in less than minute andHalf, Victoria have given a series of metals with edge that keeps under his bed next to the stuffed animals.
The character that narrates tells us about their dead who are in a little house that have built them in their honor, the first thing they do is open a viewfinder to make sure they don’t miss a piece, a chain or a piece of the mask of the maskBe so open, but if there is a missing one they get between two to hold it and tie it or change the masks. The twins were bought some robots armor and never reappeared, my mother polish them and her father changes their batteries to make funny noises, since the bibs and armor, also the adorned chains changed, wereThe walls are painted.
conclusion
Victoria took the mask of Dad Ignacio exposing her yellowish face of dry skin with her father’s black mouth her father stayed blank with the brush in hand she ran scared, but then stroked her cheek, he tried to bite her, butShe effortlessly withdrew the consequent hand placed her mask and hugged him by saying -abuelito-. My mother forcibly laid Dad Ignacio and placed the twins by her side, she let Conchita wandered around, began to pray, when she left the Toria cemetery she reached her father and in a gesture he asked him if he was saying goodbye towhat she nodd saying that her boyfriend wants to go to the other side where they started.
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