![]() ![]() With the right key, you can bust the door wide open. A long time later I would think to myself: Everyone needs a key. We were both excited, and we were right to be, because that bag changed everything. ![]() ![]() Despite his desperate poverty, Raphael displays a spirit of solidarity that foreshadows how, at the end of the book, the boys will give away to the poor the vast majority of the six million dollars they risk their lives to find. But what is significant in this passage is how Raphael immediately shares nearly half of his find with his friend Gardo rather than keep the money to himself. Eleven hundred pesos is a small fortune for a dumpsite boy who makes two hundred on a good day. When Raphael finds José Angelico's wallet, he cannot believe his luck. I gave him five hundred, which was fair because I was the one who found it. Gardo was punching me, and I don’t mind telling you, we almost danced. I sat there laughing and saying a prayer. A chicken costs one-eighty, a beer is fifteen. There were eleven hundred pesos inside, and that – let me tell you – is good money. My fingers were trembling, because the wallet was fat. ![]()
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