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Susan Beth Pfeffer's short story, “Ashes”, is about a young girl put in unfortunate circumstances by her father. Ashes is very close with her father and has nothing but good thoughts of him, she trusts him. She associates him with the warmth of the sun on a warm summer day, with promises, and dreams. Ashes’s father doesn’t think he could ever do anything wrong, but she is put in a very hard situation when her father asks her to steal from her mother. Ashes does not think of her father quite the same anymore. One theme presenting itself in ashes is just because you should be able to trust somebody doesn't mean you can.
Throughout most of the story, the author describes how much ashes loves her father.She loves her father because he has
Susan Beth Pfeffer's short story, “Ashes”, is about a young girl put in unfortunate circumstances by her father. Ashes is very close with her father and has nothing but good thoughts of him, she trusts him. She associates him with the warmth of the sun on a warm summer day, with promises, and dreams. Ashes’s father doesn’t think he could ever do anything wrong, but she is put in a very hard situation when her father asks her to steal from her mother. Ashes does not think of her father quite the same anymore. One theme presenting itself in ashes is just because you should be able to trust somebody doesn't mean you can.
Throughout most of the story, the author describes how much ashes loves her father.She loves her father because he has