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Ashes In 'A Farther's Ashes'

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Ashes, the girl of a divorced family, has to make the most family breaking decision of her life between her Mom and Dad. Ashes has to choose to help her Mom keep the money or steal the money for her Dad. Ashes stole the money from her mom for many reasons to be told. First, she believes in her Dad more than her Mom, secondly, Ashes wants to protect her Dad, and finally, she needs to get the love from her Dad. First of all, she believes in her Dad more than her Mom because her Dad always promised her things while her Mom never promised her anything, “Dad always used to promise me the stars for a necklace…” (Pfeffer 1) “...but she just called me Ashleigh-a name she didn’t like- and never promised me anything.”(Pfeffer 1), they say this about Ashes parents because the author wants to show how much her Dad cares about Ashes while her Mom didn’t do anything except for giving her what she needs. She feels like she needs to believe in her Dad so much because he always calls Ashleigh Ashes because he believes she is special, “You have flair Ashes, style. You’re sure to make your mark.” (Pfeffer 2) The author says this to show caring he is for Ashes. …show more content…

Her Dad needs money to start his business, about two hundred dollars, but he also owes other people two hundred dollars, people that could hurt him if he didn’t pay the money, “I had no idea where Dad thought he could get two hundred dollars…”(Pfeffer 3), “ You owe them two hundred dollars? I asked, trying to keep the panic out of my voice.” (Pfeffer 3) The author shows the panic and the urge that Ashes needs to help her Dad as soon as possible. “Can I help? I asked. Dad smiled like i’d offered him the key to the mint.”(Pfeffer 3) When Ashes offers her help to her Dad, we know that Ashes will most likely do anything to get her Dad out of the situation he is in at the

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“One in a million,’ he said ‘And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, Ashes.”-pg2 acknowledges her father. The dad is Ashleigh’s cheerleader always upbeat, but since he wants to make her dreams come true she in return ”owes” him a “favor”. Kind of like when someone gives another person a compliment the other person feels obligated to say thank you because they did something nice for the other person now it’s the opposite person’s turn to return the favor. Pfeffer illustrates this through ashleigh in this quote, “I love you so much,’ he said ‘ You’re ten thousand times better than I deserve, Ashes’....’I had an thought,’ he said as he reached for my pickle.’

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