“Mom might never be caught without batteries or tissues, but she just calls me Ashleigh- a name she doesn’t even like- and never promised me anything.” P.1. Ashleigh’s dad is in a tough financial spot because of a deal he made, and after hearing the situation she realizes that she needs to lend him some of her mom’s money. The story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer leaves Ashleigh’s decision to be inferred by the reader using the text evidence. Ashleigh will lend her dad some of her mom’s money because he’s a trustworthy person, he’s her father, and he said he would repay her.
Ashleigh would give her father the money because he is a very trustworthy as well as dependable man and in the passage it even said, “He’s always there if you need him.”P.1. The author tells the reader this to stress that Ashleigh’s dad is a very trustworthy and dependable man. “He’s unexpectedly there like a warm day in January. He’s a rescuer.”P.1. This simile helps the reader connect more to the idea that Ashleigh’s dad is
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“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?’ I asked. Dad smiled like I’d offered him the key to the mint.”P.3.Ashes eagerness to help also encouraged her father to open up about his money situation. “‘You,’ dad said. ‘ I’d be borrowing from the money from you. And I swear to you, Ashes I’d have the money in your hands by Friday.’”P.4. That fact that Ashleigh’s dad swore to her that he’d pay her back by Friday, using her special nickname shows that he wishes he didn’t have to ask for a