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The Influence Of Moises

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On May 10, 1990, when in was Mexican Mother’s Day, Moises arrived in Mexico for another one of his quick meet-ups with his family. He had stayed for a couple of days with his family, and during his stay, he had learned that my mother was recently engaged to my father, Guillermo Diaz, and the wedding was going to happen in a couple of months from now. “His face was like mines when I saw him in America” (Diaz). It was a very happy moment, and many other people came in to see the popular Moises during his stay. Then, on May 14, he decided that he needed to go back to the U.S, as he still had much work to be done back. He got inside his new car, in which was a Chevy Monte Carlo, and headed on back as his family and friends waves goodbye (Cuevas). …show more content…

borders, a random man, who remains unknown, drove while drunk, causing him to speed up tremendously, and when Moises drove around the corner of the street, the man immediately crashes into Moises. The impact of the car did not killed the man, but as for the 24 years old Moises, he died from the impact of the car crash (Gutierrez). It wasn’t long until word got around that Moises was killed, and once people got to hear the news, everyone’s emotions became incredibly unstable they were experiencing the 7 stages of grief in full effect. Everyone was traumatized, especially for his family as everyone within the new modernized house had felt a high amount of depression in the air; it was as if the house itself was sad that his creator was killed. “Compared to Mexico’s’ catastrophes, they seemed to be cakewalks over this new catastrophe” (Gutierrez). And this last for quite some times; all the way to the day of the funeral and burial. Moises was so influential and important to many of people’s lives that, “a whole bus had to be rented out to escort the dozens of people who were going to attend to his …show more content…

During this sad moment, music played in the background, in which was Michael Jackson playing an abundant amount of disco music. This was requested from the family as this was the music that Moises loved to hear, and they wanted to play it one last time while Moises was in the room, praising that he may hear his favorite music once again (Gutierrez). Emotions became fully ramped up to speed and no one was holding back. Everyone but the little brother, Alex. When I first heard this, I asked why he didn’t cry. Did he not like Moises as much as everyone else? Alex answered in a calm but sadden tone, “No. I was just because I believed that he needed to prove that he was strong just like Moises, and that he had to be the new man in the house.” The funeral continued for several hours, nearly all day, and once the funeral was over, many people would not get over their loss for quite some time. And despite their loss, they knew may Moises was up in heaven looking upon them, making sure every one of them would have a happy life as much as he

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