tion/learning then how could you strive to live? One day Juan had to teach his two nephew's (Luisa's son's) Jose and Pedro a lesson. He found out that the two boys had taken the pants off their teacher and threw him out the window. So Juan took both of them to work with him. He made them get up when the day was just beginning. They had to dig up the barrels of liquor that Juan had put there for safe keeping. After they were done shoveling they put the barrels into the back of the truck and covered them with manure. They went on their way to deliver the liquor and Juan was talking to the boys as he drove. Pedro took the caliber .38 gun from his brother and shot the front windshield. Since Juan couldn't really see what was in front of him they almost went over the cliff. Juan took Pedro into the bush about a mile ahead and cut a branch off of the tree. Juan began to switch him and shouting,"I work for my living! I don't go around shooting people! And I wouldn't shoot a gun inside a house or car no matter if God Himself tells me to! I think, I use my head, and I work hard! I'm a businessman! I'm not a stupid gang of little two-bit, ass-turning punks, ganging up on an old teacher and pantsing him! I got balls, you understand? I got respect! I sweat! I work!" (p. 313)Juan needed to have this one on one conversation to tell his nephew that just because he was a bootlegger that didn't mean he didn't have respect for life, work and education. Juan goes on saying, "Reading, education, that's what's going to get us ahead in the long run. Not this bootlegging." (p. 315) Juan did not get an education and he believes education is the way for his nephews to get ahead in life. Both of these families had to accept the fact that death was a part of life. Don Tiburcio saved Lupe from the bandits that were trying to rape her. And in doing this he lost his life. Sophia was devastated that her husband had died but yet she had to go on wi...
