I Could Hear My Father's 'Yardstick'

District Common Assessment “I could hear my father's car keening in the distance .”You're one in a million,it cried” (1). This statement shows Ashleigh’s love for her father. Her parents are divorced and her father is an outgoing man and her mother as it said in the story “is as straight as a yardstick “. As you can see they are very different and her dad needs a little bit of help.The father needs to take money from her mother and Ashleigh is the only one who can do it.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

so this quote tells you that he might be doing things he is not suppose to do and he needs help getting on track.One of the irresponsible he did was that he had to owe these guys money becuse he prpbably got a laon from them now he owes them. In the story the quote said “They get itchy when you owe them money” in the quote the people he owes got itch probably because if they were wondering if he was still coming to pay them.The last and most irresponsible he was asking Ashleigh to steal money from her mother from her father The quote said “Take the money,and come right down”(4) the tis would be the most irresponsible thing because her mom put her heart and effort into making this money and he just wants to steal