District Common Assessment
Ashleigh’s dad tells Asheigh that “you are one in a million.” Ashleigh’s dad wants her to take money from the teapot in her mom’s apartment because he is broke. Since Ashleigh’s mom and dad are divorced she has to pick which side she wants to be on. Ashleigh will take the money to help her dad because he is broke and he loves her very much and tells her all these sweet things, also so it will make him happy. Ashleigh always enjoyed hanging out with her dad. Ashleigh would talk about how the sun is always shining while she is with her dad. Ashleigh’s dad always said things that made her feel good, like, “you look radiant!” Even though she did not believe everything her father said, she enjoyed
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Ashleigh asked, “can I help?”pg 3 when her dad was explaining he owed 200 dollars. Ashleigh seems to think that she is like her father because he is always nice. When her dad told her about how he imagined how he could spend that 200 dollars, Ashleigh admitted she had the same idea. Right before Ashleigh went inside to her mom’s house, her last words to her father were, “All right.”pg 3. Ashleigh appeared to love her father and would do anything to help him. Ashleigh never said she would not do …show more content…
In the “Ashes” story by Susan Beth Preffer, she begins it with the quote, “That winter, it felt like every time I saw my father, the sun cast off just a little more warmth than it had the day before.” Later, when the writer on page 1 had stated that Ashleigh’s dad said “I am a dreamer”, and her mom said, “He is a irresponsible bum”, Ashleigh replied with, “I knew he was both, but I also knew that winter that the sun and the moon dreamed with him.” Ashleigh also discussed on page 1 how when she was not sure if “Ashes” was such a good name, “Dad gave me roses or sung me a song he wrote for me.” and then she felt special again. It seems to be the basis of the story that Ashleigh has good feelings toward her father. Ashleigh seems to prefer the possible dreams more than cold facts. The attention that Ashleigh got from her father made her feel special.
Ashleigh will take the money because her dad makes her feel good with what he says. Ashleigh’s dad thought dreams were more important than reality. This was shown when he said, “All I can give you is dreams Ashes, but one good dream is worth a thousand flashlight batteries.”pg 1. Ashleigh’s dad said,”I wish I deserved you.”pg 2. Ashleigh answered with, “I wouldn’t have wanted another dad.” Ashleigh’s dad told her, she is “one in a million.”pg 4. She loved hearing this even though she didn’t feel like she was a one in a million
First, Ashleigh took the money because her dad isn’t very wealthy and he needed the money. Her dad owes someone some money in the text it said that “you owe them two hundred dollars?” She asked her dad if he had enough money to buy them dinner. In the text it says “can you
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Ashleigh wants to make her dad happy. He is always nice to her and she wants to return the favor like when he said “‘You get more and more beautiful.’” (pg 2).
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.
Her dad andrew had kinda played his way out of being a dad
“Mom might never be caught without batteries or tissues, but she just calls me Ashleigh- a name she doesn’t even like- and never promised me anything.” P.1. Ashleigh’s dad is in a tough financial spot because of a deal he made, and after hearing the situation she realizes that she needs to lend him some of her mom’s money. The story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer leaves Ashleigh’s decision to be inferred by the reader using the text evidence.
District Common Assessment Essay If your father desperately needed to borrow two hundred dollars from you to pay back a loan, would you give it to him? This question is explored in the short fictional story written by Susan Beth Pfeffer called “Ashes” with a main character named Ashleigh. The story points towards Ashleigh giving her father the money because she looks up to him, loves him and she believes that he would never do anything to hurt her or get her in trouble.
Ashes took the money because she would do anything to help her father, even to the point of theft. Ashes had to make the toughest decision to help her father or spare her mother. She helped her
“And I realized he still called me Ashes where my Mom couldn't hear him to be annoyed”-pg 1.This shows Ashleigh that her dad loves her that he doesn't care how people look at her nickname it
You think of desperate people or criminals stealing but not so often a 14 year old girl. Ashes is a teenage girl in Europe living between her divorced Mother and Father. Constant fighting between the parents eventually drove the two apart. Now every tuesday Ashe’s goes over to her Dad’s after school to eat supper and talk with him. She made a big decision in deciding to take the money for her Dad
A few hours later all of my stuff was tucked into my room, Mom and Sydney both started crying when they got ready to leave. Dad even had tears in his eyes, “I promise all of you, I’ll take good care of her. No Debbie downers allowed!” Sarah hugged mom and Sydney then Dad and Cade.
She expressed how she noticed that her dad was disconsolate
Hearing her dad say that gives her a sense of security knowing that the money will eventually make its way back to the teacup safe and sound. Ashleigh also trusts her dad because in the story he said, “It’s me she’d be angry at.” (Pfeffer 4) This led
Ashes’ father is basically implying that he made a bet with someone and he has not paid them back. Typically when that happens, you are probably in trouble. Not only is Ashes’ dad putting her in trouble, he is lying to her face about it in the first
One reason why she’d choose to help her dad is because she’s spent much more time with him. “I’d go straight to Dad’s place from school, wait for him to show, and then we’d have supper together and talk.” (pg. 1) Everyday after school, she has dinner with him. Since mealtime is one of the places where people bond most by conversation and food, Ashleigh would favor her father.