“Oh well, Ashes you can always see right through me. ”P.3. The author used this metaphor to help the reader realize how well Ashleigh knows her dad, and this helps the reader further by understanding that the trust between Ashleigh and her dad is mutual. This is how he knows it’s ok to tell her about his situation and that he needs money. “ ‘Can I help?’
The father is the supporting, caring and loving parent while the mother is more of the parent who brings in the income. Ashleigh’s father is always helping her when she has a problem, so it’s okay if she helps him now when he has a problem by stealing the money for him. “I hate to speak against her, but she’s not a dreamer, Ashes.”-pg2. Whenever Ashleigh is around her father she is more joyous than when she is with her mother.
Father’s have a great amount of influence on their kids, especially on their sons, because they look up to them as role models. Having someone to teach them all about manhood, resourcefulness etc. Although some father’s are absent in a kids life and some are not always there, and some may struggle to provide for their kids, and giving them what they need., Fathers all want the best for their kids, even if that means that they we’re never there physically in their life or are not always there. And as children get older they may develop some hatred towards their father for not being there, Having an understanding and a reason to why they had did what they did, and those kids will eventually realize that after their father that
In preparation for this paper I chose to read Fire in the ashes: twenty five years among the poorest children in America by Jonathan Kozol. In this book Kozol has followed these children and their family’s lives for the past twenty five years. In his writing Kozol portrays a point of view most from his background and standing would not be capable of having. He portrays what life is like for those who have been let down by the system that was meant to protect them. Kozols writing style can be very blunt at times, not for shock value, but for the sake of portraying these children’s realities, and not sugarcoating the inequalities that they are faced with.
“Your one in a million” Ashleighs dad claims. Ashleigh goes with her dad once a week on Tuesdays. Ashleigh mainly lives with her mom in an apartment. On Tuesday Ashleigh goes out with her dad and Ashleighs dad tells Ashleigh that he got into trouble and needs 200 dollars When Ashleighs dad says “you're one in a million” but he doesn't really think that he just wants to butter her up, so Ashleigh can steal 200 dollars from Ashleighs moms emergency money tea pot. Ashleigh doesn't steal the money because her dad could get in trouble again or not repay the money, Ashleigh lives with her mom and would never want to jeopardize the relationship, and the 200 dollars Ashleigh would be stealing could save Ashleighs life and her mom's to.
We all desire the warmth of feeling special and loved, especially from our parents, but at what point is our desire no longer a playful hope, and turns into a conflicting argument? Ashleigh, or Ashes as her father calls her, is the teenage protagonist in the short story, “Ashes”, by Susan Beth Pfeffer. She is stuck between wanting to believe in her dad’s love for her and knowing deep down inside herself that she is being manipulated. Her dad is the dreamer and her mom is the “level headed” one. In the story, Ashes must decide whether to “borrow” her mother’s money for her dad, finding herself in a spot where her integrity pushes her to do what is wrong.
Almost everyone, if not everyone, has been in a sticky situation like Ashleigh’s in nearing the end of “Ashes,” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Ashleigh’s parents got divorced, when she was still young, because her dad is a very childish man. Her dad owes two hundred dollars, because he lost a bet to some people. Ashleigh’s father and mother used to live together, and the father knows about a teapot that hold a couple hundred dollars at Ashleigh’s mom’s apartment. Ashleigh will take the money from the teapot and give it to her dad, because she doesn’t want to let him down, her father makes her feels sorry for him, and her father makes promises to her.
Poetry is a language of creation and can be a powerful literary form of self-expression. Jesse Thistle, the author of From the Ashes, includes poetry throughout his memoir to share his emotional and inspiring story of overcoming addiction and homelessness. He has now become an author and a rising Indigenous scholar. Thistle begins the memoir with the poem " A Little Boy's Dream," introducing the theme of suicide and displaying Thistle's struggles with his family.
All children have a unique and personal bond with their parents. Whether or not a parent is always present in child’s life, they always manage to have some type of impact on their child’s life. Loung Ung’s father had an extremely profound impact on her life as well as the rest of her family. Without even reading her memoir, First They Killed My Father, you can discern from the title that Loung Ung’s father played a crucial role in her upbringing. Sadly you can also gather from the title that Loung’s father is dead which implies that Loung did not have an exceptionally happy childhood.
Family Influences The style of parenting a child receives while growing up is very important when it comes to adulthood. Some children are taught by their parents on what to do and what mindsets to have in life, whereas some children use their parents' wrongdoings as an example on what not to do as an adult. “Nobody’s Son,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, shows the effect of bad parenting on a child throughout adulthood. “My Ecumental Father” by Jose Antonio Burciaga and "Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, both show the effect that good parenting has on children.
We all tend to have issues with our dads, but we are sometimes ignorant of the benefits of being with dad. Two authors discuss their relationships in each of their respective essays: Brad Manning with “Arm Wrestling with My Father” and Sarah Vowell with “Shooting Dad.” I will be comparing/contrasting he essays on: the conflict each author had with their dad, the feelings that encompassed from it, and the outcome of their relationships. To begin, Manning talks about his frustrations with his dad. He would always beat Manning in arm wrestling, and would take every opportunity to fix Manning’s physical skills.
Throughout the life of a child, they experience life lessons and they widley observe their parents behaviour. Children learn what is considered right and wrong and ultimately, become a manifestation of whoever raised them. Although fictional characters are simply fiction, they easily portray the lessons children go through everyday. Characters within media have shown at least one parental figure in their lives that have impacted them somehow. Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem Finch in Harper Lee’s
Best of the Worst Parenting is never perfect. Every parents questions whether they are raising their child correctly, and no parent ever feels like they are doing the right thing. With no clear distinction between good and bad parenting, it is usually left to personal preferences and judgements to decide which parents have adequately raised their children and which have failed. When a parent so call “fails,” often it is the children with their strong will and determination to survive that collectively raise themselves. In Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Leonie, one of the narrators and the mother of another narrator, Jojo, is not the most caring, hands-on mother, but is loving of her children nevertheless.
Hello Yilun, I enjoyed your post. To talk more about the remains in the ashes after cremation, I found a website that talks more about this. In the website, it mentions that the cremation process destroys all traces of organic, carbon-based matter and all bodily fluids escape through the cremator's exhaust. As you mentioned, human ashes do not present any health hazard to the environment. After cremation, the only thing remaining of the body is part of the skeletal structure and some small amounts of salts and minerals.
The realistic fiction story, “Ashes”, by Susan Beth Pfeffer is about a young girl who has two very polar opposite parents. A fun, but irresponsible father, and a practical, proactive mother. Ashes faces a major dilemma when her financially troubled father asks Ashes to steal from her mother’s emergency fund for his own personal needs. Sometimes, the people you love most can be selfish and deceive you. This relates to my story because Ashes’ dad is manipulative, deceptive, and selfish.
