A teenage girl named Ashleigh (nicknamed Ashes) is stuck in a sticky dilemma. Ashes is a young teenage girl with divorced parents. Her father is more of a risk-taker while her mother takes the safe option. Later on in the story Ashes learns that her father owes two hundred dollars and asks Ashes to “borrow” some money from her mother. Now she has to ask herself, what does she do. Ashes did take the money because she liked her father more than her mother, she wants to keep her father safe, and she needs to repay him for all the good things that he has done.
Ashes did take the money because she liked her father more than her mother. The first piece of evidence claiming this is that she is happier with her father then with her mother. Whenever she was with him the narrator stated “...the sun cast off a little more warmth than the day before…” and the narrator also stated “... and the moon always shone as brightly as the sun had and the stars looked joyful”(Pfeffer 1). Another reason Ashes liked her father more than her mother was that he always made her feel special. Even with not the most joyful nickname
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Going back to the first paragraph Ashes wanted to repay her father because he let her dream. He once told her “... all I can give you is dreams Ashes. But one good dream is worth a thousand flashlight batteries.” so she wants to repay him because he likes letting her dream unlike her mother (Pfeffer 1). Another reason Ashes wants to repay her father is because he helps society. Ashes says he helps society because he says whenever he’s late, “I saw a women on the street so I changed her tire for her” or she said he found a lost wallet, returned it, and turned down a reward (Pfeffer 1). The last reason Ashes wants to repay her father was for his love. Already explained in the first paragraph Ashes likes her father more than her mother so she wants to repay him for