Ashleigh is the main character in the story.She has divorced parents and is an only child.She likes her dad more but lives with her mom most of the time.Her dad is a dreamer just like her and he can't keep promises.Ashleigh took the money because she felt guilty,wanted to help her dad, and is a dreamer too.In the story the dad uses Ashleigh to get the money from her mom.
Ashes took the money because her dad made her feel guilty.Ashleigh always wanted to be with him more,She took the money to spend more time with him for example”I looked at Dad,and realized we had the same fantasies.Well why not I was his daughter, after all.”Ashes is a dreamer like her dad.She also didn't hesitate or ask many questions before she may have took the money.Also
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“That winter,it felt like every time I saw my father, the sun cast off just a little more warmth than it had day before.”It uses past tense so she must not feel that way about him after he used her for the money.Ashleigh’s mom also trusted him before because she didn't expect it “And Mom was always prepared,except for what dad did to her.”So the mom must have noticed the money was gone before the dad paid it back and he probably took the money and left or else Ashleigh wouldn't have got caught her dad would have.Also I noticed Ashes told her dad where the money was even and didn't think anything and she opened the teapot herself even “Sometimes when mom wasn't home, I’d take the lid off the teapot and stare into it, imagining what i could do with two hundred dollars.”She thought of taking it before but now she has a reason to take the money.Another thing about the mom is she used to be a dreamer like the dad and in the story Ashes says “But I was the only dream she ever believed in and once i failed her,she never let herself dream
Malachy McCourt is the major antagonist; he is responsible for keeping his family poverty-stricken. The story begins with Malachy leaving Ireland, where he fought in the Irish army to come to New York, to keep from being assassinated. There he meets Angela, who has migrated from Limerick, Ireland, and gets her pregnant. Malachy from the start portrays the antagonist; he tries to leave New York to keep from marrying Angela, but drinks the money away. The cousins coercive Malachy into marrying Angela and he says, “Och, said Malachy, I wasn't planning to get married, you know. There’s no work and I wouldn’t be able to support…” (16) This may be a foreshadowing of his inability to be a husband and father. Throughout the entire book
For one she was asking a lot of questions like she was nervous. In the story Ashes Susan Beth Pfeffer states,” You'll be able to pay her back by friday?”(pg 7) This quote show Ashleigh is apprehensive about taking the money. Ashleigh was also angry at her Dad as stated by this quote in Ashes by Susan Beth Pfeffer ,”What do you want to do, Dad? I asked. Come into the apartment with me and take the money?”(pg 4)Ashleigh’s also not sure it will work because in the story she asks a lot of questions about taking the money. Which would indicate that she is nervous and not sure about
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The third reason is Ashleigh knows that her mom was saving the money for an emergency. “‘Oh well, Ashes, you can always see right through me.’ He was one who’d been looking right through me toward the door, but I didn't say anything” (pfeffer 3).This quote means he was worried about people coming after him in the diner-putting her in a scary situation. The quote is stating, “‘That is a lot of money .What if mom finds out?’ ‘It's me who she’d be angry at me’”(Pfeffer 4). This quote means.That her dad lost at gambling and wanted her to steal the money so he could gamble again. So he did not learn his lesson. The author stated in the text, “ Good head on your shoulders. Problem is, I’d never be able to find another car this cheap to replace it. ‘No the Teapot is the way to go ’” (Pfeffer 4).This quote means Drove her to the house to steal
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