A Fortune by Joy Monica

A Fortune by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi Maybe you are a thief and living by larceny w bothets, emptying them from money and put them back. Or perhaps you are a rich man with a son you maybe love just now never show. And maybe you are the son of a man, who never noniced or loves you. Love and money are big things in life, and they are very Copernican in everyday life. In the unawares story A fortune by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi from 2000, is the relationship between a teenager and his dad illustrated. The short story A fortune is virtually a young man who is a pickpocket.He crooked teeth, oily hair and bony knees. When he was only fivesome years old, he started to steal. There is maybe a good reason why he had become a pickpocket. It exclusively started in his childhood, with his mother, fuck off and his uncle. It was his father who taught him to steal he said that it was easy for a little boy to pickpocket, because when you are little, you are not always noticed. The father was a lso that ma would materialise out, because the narrator used to save the wallets, and once a month his father found them and yelled at him. Hey, stupid, how many times I gotta tell you not to keep the wallets? Whatca gonna tell your ma if she finds them? That you old mans got you stealing from him? . His mother was an ugly lady with a curly black wig and cried all the time. But some credit he had to give her, because she tried to raise him well. She was always worried that he would end up like his Stinking, rotting, lout-of-a-father. His uncle was drunk all the time, and the only job he ever had, was to dress up as Santa Claus on every Christmas Eve.He always hid a bottle of Whisky in a pillow under his Santa Claus jacket. Sometimes he pulled the white bead to the side and asked for a stiff drink. The narrator is in many ways a swelled person. Because steeling and actually taking a total stranger with him home, is illegal. But when he steels, he doesnt see that it is wrong and for bidden. He grew up with it. But regular(a) though his father left the town, he continued on steeling. But in another way he is a good man, because he tries to wait on a kid which father is a yuppie, and have a lot of money.The kids father is ignoring his son, and he always yells at him. And when the narrator sees them in the fish market, he follows them and listens to their conversation. He decides to steal the Yuppies wallet, because his does not deserve money. The meaning of the title A fortune is that the teenager isnt his fathers fortune, but the money is. And when the narrator where a kid, he wasnt his fathers fortune. He needed love and contact with his parents.So he created his own fortune of money, he believed that money could replace the missing love. But when he met the boy, he saw the meaning of love. Love is a need, and every kid should be loved by its parents or guardians. That is why he takes the kid at home, and takes care of him for the night. The main themes in th is story are love and money. There are different meanings about what is most important. If you have all the money you want, you can buy everything but love. And when you have love, you can take care of your friends and family.