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 "Three Hundred Pesos " story summary :
 The short story "300 Pesos" is about a family which consists of 2 brothers and a sister who are farmers. They are all hardworking folks , except for one mayor detail in one of the brothers Anastacio.

Anastacio is a very greedy and miser person who only wants to earn money in order to open his own shop.

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The other brother and sister Emilio en Berta understand the situation with Anastacio and are very sad about it because they feel like the have lost their brother. Both Emilio and Berta in different moments of the story ask Anastacio for money in order to buy or pay for important things , both times he refuses to give money , because of this he faces several difficulties in order to get the money needed to open his own shop.

At the end Anastacio does get the "300 pesos " but he dies in an accident and the money is used for his funeral.