By, Yeremi Navarrete & Maxwell Cline Prologue
It was the year 1957 on a cold and snowy night on the dock leaving the ship that took them across the sea. The Cardson’s great grandfather Joseph Cardson and his two sons Jack Cardson who is 13 and Jeffery Cardson who is one year older than Jack landed in New York City harbor and traveled inland toward the city of Philadelphia. The Cardson family was immigrating from England and was very rich so they decided to build a mansion in the city of Philadelphia. Then the price of death came and their father died falling off the roof putting shingles on his newly built mansion. The sons’ returning upon the scene of the father were in panic and quickly blamed each other due to the death of their father. When the inheritance was split up the older son got 75% and …show more content…
Both Jeffery and Jack Cardson’s families are going to the get together for once in sixty years. The reason for the “get together” was because the children asked their father, “ Dad, why didn’t we do this a long time ago when we were younger?,” said Matthew waiting patiently for his opportunity to ask.
As Jeffery Cardson heard the question he quickly responded,” Well you see, my brother and I had a big argument about 60 years ago which is kind of hard to explain kids”.
“You can tell us”, Mia replied eagerly, ” We are already all teenagers, we aren’t kids anymore”.
“Ok”, he said, tired of keeping secret but feeling a bit annoyed ” Our father died when we were about you guys’ age we didn’t know who did it and blamed each other”.
“ Go on” they interjected.
“Well, when the inheritance was split up after our father died, and it wasn’t quite equal so your uncle got angry and we didn’t see or talk to each other for 60 years.” ” Dad, are you sure you’re telling us everything?,” Mia and Matthew asked curiously