On a cool winter's night, a large cloud slowly drifts past the looming moon, creating an ash-grey sky that sets off an eerie mood. A father sits in his car patiently awaiting for his daughter to bring out 200 dollars that could save him from a little financial mishap, but doesn’t. She quietly sits by a nearby window and waits for him to leave. In the short story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer, the main character Ashleigh lives with her divorced mother and frequently sees her father on Mondays and Wednesdays, during the story Ashleigh's dad mensions a financial problems and wants Ashleigh to barrow “steel” 200 dollars from her mother's savings and give it to her father whose fate lies with in the money to pull him out of financial trouble. Ashleigh …show more content…
If Ashleigh were to take the money, her mom could have easily found out because she is practical, and always is prepared for when something doesn’t work out or go exactly as planned. “She takes a grim sort of pleasure being ready for them.” (Pfeffer, 1). Ashleigh’s mom is probably prepared for when someone were to take her money because she’s to practical to not be prepared. “The flashlight with working batteries for a black out. The extra quarters when the laundry isn’t quite dry.” (Pfeffer, 1). Ashleigh’s mom could easily find out about the lost money because she always has a plan B so to speak, she is always prepared for the worst. Ashleigh couldn’t have taken the money because her mother is to practical. Lastly, Ashleigh did not take the money from her mom because her mom would be disappointed. “He’s an irresponsible bum” was her way of putting it.” (Pfeffer, 1). Ashleigh's mother would be disappointed in her if she had taken the savings money and gave it to her father to help him with financial problems. “I knew he was both.” (Pfeffer, 1). If Ashleigh agrees with her mom about her father why would she steal for him. “I’m a dreamer,” he said more than once, which really wasn’t all that different
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book
Imagine that you have to decide which of your parents you're going to side with. Ashleigh has to make this decision in the book Ashes by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Her parents are divorced and she has to decide whether or not to steal money from her mom to give to her Dad. Her Dad wants to get the 200 dollars because he's in debt.Ashleigh would most likely not take the money from her mons tea pot because her dad is irresponsible, Ashleigh is dubious about stealing,and she doesn't want to get in trouble.
By Micheal Patrick MacDonald. (Ballentine Books under The Random House Publishing Corporation, 1999, 266pp. $14.00)
My book was Gone by Lisa Gardner. It is a story about an ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his estranged wife, Rainie Conners. The story takes place in Oregon. The story begins with the profiler finding an empty car on the highway. After doing some investigating, he figured out that it was Rainies car. Thus begins the searching for Rainie. Unknown to Pierce, Rainie had been kidnapped. She is beaten, tortured, and thrown into a dark and cold basement. She stays there and tries to escape many times. Eventually, the kidnapper throws down another victim. Rainie was horrified to realize that it was a small boy. Now she can’t escape herself, she has to help the boy escape. With every failed escape, she is beaten even worse. The kidnapper finally had enough and decided to kill them. He fills the basement with water until he thought that they were dead. Fortunately, Rainie and the little boy escaped. The boy ran past the attacker while Rainie threw the attacker into the basements. They
In the novel “One Foot in Eden” the character Widow Glendower represents both the catastrophic and supernatural nature of human personality. Ron Rash achieves this by combining deep knowledge of the world, devoutness and antagonism of one being. At the beginning of this novel an event takes place with a person who is viewed as a local villain vanishes in the forests. The manipulation of the witch starts it all.
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Story of My Body” Ortiz Cofer represents herself narrative story when she were young. Her autobiography has four headlines these parts are skin, color, size, and looks. Every headline has it is own stories underneath it. Ortiz Cofer’s is expressing her life story about her physical and psychological struggle with her body. Heilbrun’s narrative, “Writing a Woman’s Life” shows that, a woman’s does not have to be an ideal to write a self-autobiography to tell the world something about herself and her life. Ortiz Cofer’s facing a body struggle that is not made by herself, but by people around her. Therefore, every woman is able to write can write an autobiography with no exception.
“The Cold Embrace” by Mary E. Braddon is a wonderfully tragic short story of a young man’s denial and guilt till the end of his life. Braddon accomplishes this by using Omniscient narration to not only showing us his guilt, denial, and struggle; but also able to present his spiral into a depression filled with delusions and guilt that eventually lead him to lose his mind and perish from outside a first person perspective.
Ultimately, the children lacked security all of their childhood and were still able to get out of poverty and be successful for once in their lives. This story is a perfect example that people that are brought up in poverty can get themselves out and live a healthy life style. Security would have shielded the children from traumatizing events such as Jeannette getting raped by Billy Deel and Brian getting molested by Erma. Mom and Dad handled their economic situation poorly because they could have started their life from scratch again with one million dollars, but instead chose to live off the land and on the streets.
In life we go through very hard times that’s just how life circles, but do these problems really help shape your spirit to who you are today and who you will be one day in the future? In the book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper Amari overcomes some of the most complicated problems in the history of the U.S., in which I personally don’t think I would have been able to handle as swiftly and fast as Amari had. With the help of others Amari was able to create a strong backbone to carry her thought out the way and support her in her worst times. Although some of these influences weren’t always the best people such as Clay, he helped shape Amaris future and the theme of the story. Finally, how important where the minor characters on helping to shape the main character’s spirit and inner mind, and after that transaction how where they able to slowly develop the theme/message of the book?
In the book “The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents” by Jo Ann E. Argersinger. In a short summary this book talks about the tragic factory fire that took lives of 146 workers in New York City, March 25, 1911. The tragedy happened during the great uprising of a women revolution, of many young females going to work to support their families. During this period many women wanted to be treated and work like how men worked. Having equal rights at jobs that were a risk to them, nothing stopped the uprising, until the fire became a change. Both sympathy and rage among all sectors of the American public got up to fight for a change. Argersinger examines in the context, trajectory, and impact of this Progressive Era event. During the Progressive Era, many big changes were being
Death and Grieving Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss.
Ann Rinaldi has written many books for young teenagers, she is an Award winning author who writes stories of American history and makes them become real to the readers. She has written many other books such as A Break with Charity, A Ride into Morning, and Cast two Shadows, etc. She was born in New York City on August 27, 1934. In 1979, at the age of 45, she finished her first book.
In Junot Diaz’s essay “The Money” he explains where his family stands economically. Stating that his father was regularly being fired from his forklifting jobs and his mother 's only job was to care for him and his four siblings. With the money brought home by his father, his mom would save some. Her reason was to raise enough to send to her parents back in the Dominican Republic. When his family went on a vacation, they came back to an unpleasant surprise; their house had been broke into. Eventually Diaz was able to get back their money and belongings. Diaz returned the money to his mother although she didn’t thank him for it, this disappointed him. Like Diaz I have also encountered a similar situation where I was disappointed. When I was in second grade, my life life took a completely different turn. My dad took an unexpected trip to Guatemala, on his return, the outcome was not what I expected.
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