"To Hell with Dying"

This story is about a man who had earned the affection of a family had always been there for him. He was a smoker, drinker but besides everything he did he had always been there for the kids. They were two kids from his neighborhood. First it was the boy, but in the story the boy and Mr. Sweet were not together that much as his sister and Mr. Sweet. Mr. Sweet knew how to make her laugh. And she knew how to make him gain strength when he was about to die. Her father every time he was about to die, he told Mr. Sweet this phrase: "To hell with dying, these kids need you".

As I understand it, this story in a way is a message to the people, because every time Mr. Sweet was sick the girl and her family always try to help him to live, but we could see that at the end she could not do anything for him. When the death is there for us, when our moment arrives there's nothing we can do. No matter how hard we try we cannot control things like that because we are not God, to make people live longer. In the time the story was written the science and medicine was not at its highest point like now, that we have anything for every pain we feel. In that moment it was the nature of the body that take care of everything. Diseases were not under control the disease control the human. There was nothing they could do.

As we can see these family was something special because they were the only ones that causes effects on Mr. Sweet. Since the beginning the two kids were always with Mr. Sweet, they were like his grandchildren. So they were inside his heart, they were tied to his feelings, because he was always carrying and worrying for them. It was the strong relationship that they had that gave her the power to cause an effect on the moment Mr. Sweet was about to die. And we can see this because in the story Alice said that everyone in the neighborhood looked for them every time Mr. Sweet was sick. They did not looked for anyone else except for them. This means that they have a strong, bonded relationship, it is like if they were family. They are, maybe not blood family but they reacted like family. Because every time they went to look for the family they did not waste a second and run over to Mr. Sweet's place. So I think this story shows us how to treat and react to the family.