Imagine being forced to betray someone you love. You have to choose between your parents. One you have to betray, and the other would be fine. Ashleigh, the narrator and main character of a fictional piece by Susan Pfeffer, has been forced into a situation where she must choose to “borrow” her mother’s emergency money and give it to her dad, who is in trouble. Or she can choose to not help him, and let him pay the price for his shortcomings. Ashleigh borrowed her mother’s emergency money because she cares about her father, she has always connected to his better than her mom, and the clouds are always brighter when Ashleigh is around her dad.
It is very obvious that Ashleigh decided to take her mother’s emergency and give it to her dad because she cares about him. Ashleigh's father makes her feel special when she is around him. They definitely have a good relationship, it isn’t as if Ashleigh doesn’t like her father. In the text, when the narrator, Ashleigh, is first setting the scene she explains how her father and her mother are split
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In the text Ashleigh states, “But she just called me Ashleigh--a name she didn’t even like--and never promised me anything.” Ashleigh’s mother doesn’t even like her name, whereas her father came up with her name and gives her a nickname. This would already give Ashleigh a stronger connection to her dad. In the situation she is in, where she must choose who to betray, it is basically asking would you rather betray someone who has promised you anything you ever wanted and has always supported you, or would you rather betray someone who has never promised you anything and doesn’t even like your name. There would be a clear winner, although that doesn’t mean she would willingly betray her mother. No child wants to be forced into a situation such as the one Ashleigh has been forced