Week Four - The Stolen Money

I think that there are two likely things that Sonny will do with the money he stole from Cloyd.

1)      In the beginning of the story Sonny tells us, “I made a decision to save this money, to use it right. Also because stealing made me feel shitty, and I didn’t like that part much. So it seemed better that if I wasn’t wasting it, if it wasn’t exactly gone, just put away for necessary things, it wasn’t as bad” (P. 49), which leads to me to believe that he will put away the money and not touch it at all. I’m sure that he’s just going to hide it for the meanwhile, and perhaps later use it for a “good cause”. Perhaps he will save it and wait until he has enough money to take him to France, or at least enough to get him away from Los Flores.

2)      Another possibility is that he gives that money to Nica to help her get out of the apartment she is trapped in. He mentions earlier in the book that he wishes he could help her. He even confides that to Joe and Mike: “I just told them about Nica. I told them how I wished I could do something, how I didn’t see why she had to live like that” (P. 205). So out of these two theories, I think the most likely one to happen is that he will use the money to help out Nica.

Because although he loves speaking French, it seems to be just an act; he does not seem to have a genuine interest in going to Notre Dame. He mostly like speaking French because it makes Nica happy, even if it is just for a short period of time. Which goes back to how he wants Nica to be happy and wants to help her, so I’m sure that he will use the money to do just that.

If I was in Sonny’s position, I would’ve done what I predict that he will do: use the money to help out Nica. I mean, yes it’s wrong that he stole, and maybe it would’ve been better for him to simply get a new envelope and put it back, but in my point of view, Cloyd doesn’t really need that money. He probably wouldn’t even notice that it was gone. Therefore, I would rather give it someone who does need it, to someone who will appreciate it. Giving it to Nica would make me feel good because in helping her escape the trap she lives in, I would be making her life better. And helping people always makes me happy. (: