District Common Assessment Essay Ashleigh lives a rough life with tough decisions. In the short story, “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer, it’s winter and Ashleigh had to decide whether she should take money from her mom’s emergency pot for her dad or just keep it there for her mom. Ashleigh’s parents are divorced, so she doesn’t know what her punishment will be for which ever side she will pick. Ashleigh decides to take the money because she wants to make her dad happy, her mom doesn’t appreciate her as much as her dad, and her dad needs it for something that will let him go far in life. 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).
A little boy who wants admiration from his dad becomes a drug addict that is completely wretech but finds his path towards a successful man in the future. Jesse Thistle, the author of From the Ashes is an agonizng yet compelling story that retells someone life experiences with addictions, trauma and identity. From the Ashes is a memoir about life and on how people can be impacted by systematic racism, homelesness and trauma but can overcome them with the help of family, friends and culture. Most of us have dealt with some sort of form of bullying but Thistle deals with this for most of his childhood. Thistle’s Métis identity is made fun of by his classmates.
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 father was put in jail for what he didn’t commit. At this time, her mother was pregnant and the family was left without a breadwinner. Six years later by the fault of a neighbor, their house burned down. Fortunately, nobody got hurt but they were left with nothing. But in spite
Evaluation There is not a specific setting in the story, just that it’s during the summer months. The plot of this story is when a mother dies of a freak accident, her oldest son Josh tries to figure out the cause of her death. The theme of the story is figuring out how to deal with death and grief. The Characters are: Josh who is 12 and the eldest son, Sam who is four, and their dad. This story is told from the point of view of Josh.
This book is a story of a girl named Lucky, the hard times she has faced in her short ten years of life and the ways she has overcome them. The setting of this book is in a town called Hard Pan in the California desert where Lucky has a few friends in the 43-town population; Miles, Lincoln, and Short Sammy. The book starts off with Lucky wanting to get this “higher power” that she overhears a few people talking about in a 12-step meeting in her town; she thinks if she gets this, all her problems will go away because of the stories she hears being told in the museum and visitor center. Lucky has been through what most ten-year-old girls today have not been through. Her mother passed away when she was eight and her father called his ex-wife,
"My mom and I got in a fight and she told me she was going to kill me," she recalls. "And I wrapped a belt around my neck and told her I would do it for her. I ended up in a psychiatric hospital and from there I went to foster care." The author appeals to emotion by trying to get as personal as possible as she could to
In a broken, worn neighborhood with violence and poverty, a young girl named ashes must make a decision that will affect the people in her life. Ashes a young girl with parents who can't get along, a worn neighborhood with little money and the choice to help her father steal money from her mother or refuse to steal. Ashes took the money because she was influenced by her father, her mother never had a secure relationship with her, and ashes believed more in her father and cared more than her mother. Ashes was influenced by her father, she would do anything for her father to help him. Ash's father needs ashes to steal the money for him instead of him having to steal and possibly go to jail, he states “No, I just thought maybe you could borrow
“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
This story brings up the topics of parenting, neglect, and role models. The author utilizes the characters Isa and the narrator
The realistic fiction story, “Ashes”, by Susan Beth Pfeffer is about a young girl who has two very polar opposite parents. A fun, but irresponsible father, and a practical, proactive mother. Ashes faces a major dilemma when her financially troubled father asks Ashes to steal from her mother’s emergency fund for his own personal needs. Sometimes, the people you love most can be selfish and deceive you. This relates to my story because Ashes’ dad is manipulative, deceptive, and selfish.
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.
In a small, marginalized town called Bathtub, there lived a young girl named Hushpuppy and her father, Wink. Because Wink is terminally ill, he chooses to raise his daughter under tough circumstances so she could learn to live without him. He constantly yells at her, leaves her alone for long periods of time to fend for herself, and even lives in a different house. Hushpuppy does not seem to understand why her father is treating her this way, so she burns down the trailer she was living in. Her dad is, then, forced to let her move into his house, but not without restrictions.
Rhetorical Analysis of Shooting Dad The story “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell discusses a story about a teenage girl and her relationship with her father and how they are constantly clashing with each other because they are almost exact opposites. The author develops her story by creating images in the reader 's mind to describe events that happened in her life, the use hyperbole for comedic relief, and irony for emotional effect. The use of these emotional strategies is effective because Vowell is able to use these strategies to help the readers understand the relationship between her and her father. Overall by the use of strategies like imagery, hyperbole, and irony the author creates a piece of writing that shows the relationship between the main character and her father.
The next four chapters introduces the events that takes place at David’s house when his Aunt Harriet arrives. From my point of view, Aunt Harriet is a caring and loyal woman. In the story, even after Mr.Strorm and his wife Emily Strorm accused her of being used by the Devil and sent to commit heresy for wanting to acquire a certificate for her third baby who is a deviant like the previous ones, she still loved her baby. She would not let them take her baby away from her again and did her best to protect it. On the other hand, her sister also David’s mother Emily Strorm is very similar to her husband since she follows her husband’s actions although, she isn’t as intense in enforcing the ‘True Image of God.’
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be stuck in a middle of a house on fire? This story is about a girl named Ashton, she woke up in a middle of a burning house. She was stuck inside of the house until somebody came in from the window and got her but when they looked at her face all they saw is depression and she wanted to move out of the house. Ashton main problem that she was stuck in to is her depression. The three main topics that affected her are her depression, being scared, and being lonely.