A Character Living In Poverty Comes Into An Unexpected Fortune

From rags to riches
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From rags to riches
Being the first born in a family of five, I always played the role of a parent in absentia of my parents. My father was an ordinary carpenter and my mother a peasant farmer in the province. Struggling to ensure that my siblings and I had the basic needs, my parents would work day and night just to make ends meet. Schooling in the best schools could never be an option for us as we rarely had proper meals in our childhood days. We barely fitted in the social cycles of our neighbors and friends, bearing the fact that it was in the 19th century and everyone seemed to have caught up with evolution. Poverty was our day to day companion, and we had grown fond of it. At the age of ten, I was able to do some odd jobs around the neighborhood to lighten the burden of my parents.
Things could never get any worse than it was on the day my youngest brother had to start his pre-school. Being a special day for little John, both of my parents had to accompany him to school. If only that day could be reversed, then my poor parents would have never left home for the school, a journey that led to the loss of my father's life, leaving my mother paralyzed and my little brother traumatized. It was like the end of the ...