“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?’
District Common Assessment Essay “I lifted the lid and stared at her emergency money. ”-pg4. Ashleigh is a character in the short story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. In “Ashes”, Ashleigh is a teenager whose parents are divorced and complete opposites. Her father is a dreamer and not responsible while Ashleigh’s mother is always prepared and extremely responsible.
This shows why the main character, Connie, makes the choice to ditch her Abuela based off of her judgements on her. The author uses this point of view so you can understand the feelings Connie is going through rather than just believing she is a rude teen . The short story Ashes states, “‘You’re one in a million,’ he said to me. ‘The best daughter a man could dream of.’ I got out of the car and ran over to the apartment.
The title of my book is Ashes, Ashes by Karyn Folan and this is a realistic fiction story about a fallout. The main character is Liam and he wants to get himself his sister lily and a couple of his friends to a mountain bunker to be safe from a fallout that's about to happen. This story takes place in washington DC and Liam has to get himself and his sister Lilly, along the way he also picks up two of his best friends Mrs. Standish and Amaranth Jones. These to were friends Liam had at John F. Kennedy High. After he gathered these people he had to make a 200 mile trek to the mountain to get Lily and his friends to safety.
Im sure she does because her dad has always been nice to her, he is always helping other out as well, and she has some problems with her mom. Since her dad is always being nice to her and just buttering her up any normal person would want to repay that kindness. You can just see how nice he is to her in some of these quotes. “...but then dad gave me roses or sang me a song he had written for me. ”(Pfeffer 1).
Will Dobert Hour 2 District Common Assessment “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” -Theodore Roosevelt. In the short story Ashes by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a girl named Ashleigh is being pressured by her dad to do the wrong thing; steal money from her mom’s emergency money stash. Ashleigh’s parents are split up and her dad is short on money.
The main goal of Cody Reynolds is to find out why Meg Garcia, her best friend, killed herself. At the beginning of the book Cody believes she is part of the reason Meg killed herself. During the few months prior to Meg committing suicide, Cody had been distance with her and used every excuse she could think of to avoid going to Seattle to visit her. Cody thought that if she had been a good friend and didn’t separate herself from her, then Meg would’ve come to her for help and would still be alive. Without knowing it, she was trying to find assurance that she wasn't the reason Meg was dead, even though Meg had sent her an email saying, “This has nothing to do with you and everything to do with me.
When she was young, she could not process the way her father raised and treated her, so she believed everything he said. When she is able to understand, her tone changes and becomes clinical and critical remembering the way he constantly let her
Octavia Butler uses symbolism to highlight how the irregular occurrence of time travel forces Dana to accept slavery and how her past will “live” in her presence. Dana is forced to assimilate to the past because she has no control over her fate, and her life in the past revolves around slavery. The fact that Dana quickly transitions from the past to the present shows that she is quick to accept this time of slavery even though she is not mentally prepared for it. After Dana is disturbed by the inhumanity that the children show by playing an auction game, she says, “The ease. Us, the children… I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery” (Butler 101).
Similar to “The Story of an Hour”, the marriage in “In The Evenings” by Melissa Checker causes those involved to feel trapped; however, instead of feeling trapped in the structure of marriage, the family feels trapped by it instead; the marriage is not the direct source of the conflict in the story, but rather prevents the characters from solving or escaping the main conflict of the story, the mother’s short temper and verbal abuse. While the story begins innocently, describing a mother and her daughters going to the mall to run errands, the use of the word “heavy” represents the buildup of pressure that foreshadows the mother’s rageful outburst: “On summer nights, when it's light until after the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist” (Checker #).
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.
Ashleigh chose to help her father because she spent more time with her dad instead of her mother, she had a closer bond with her father , and she thinks her dad needs help. It appears that Ashleigh spent more time with her dad instead of her mother. The first reason why Ashleigh spent more time with her father instead of her mother because most of her tuesdays and thursdays with her dad because her mom was busy with classes those days because she was still working on completing her degree. The second reason why she rather spend more time with him because her dad always gives her compliments like saying she is beautiful or that she is one in a million. Without
While her dad thinks too much and is to overprotective. This may be the reason why she wants to do what she wants. Her dad has been protective her whole
One of the main personality traits showing in Ashes’ dad in the story is manipulation. On multiple occasions, he tries to butter Ashes up to get her to do what he wants. “‘You look radiant,’ he said. ‘You get more and more beautiful.’ I was wearing jeans and a bulky brown sweater that Mom had given me for Christmas.”
