Ashley Rhodes's Three Little Words

Three Little Words is a true story about a little girls journey through foster care and the daily struggles and obstacles she has to face. Ashley Rhodes tells the story of her and her brother being taken from her mother and all the temporary homes she has to live in and case workers she gets passed along to. The most pivotal and life changing event in this book would have to be when Ashley finally gets adopted by a family. The reason this is the event I choose is up till this point Ashley has moved from home to home for so long that she starts to believe all things are temporary. She has never felt the security of having an actual place to call home. Also the couple that adopted her is exactly what she needed. Ashley needed love, comfort, and support as all children do but she also needed someone to be patient with her while also enforcing discipline. She was a young intelligent girl but she had been through so many hard times that she was difficult to deal with at times. Gay and Phil, the couple who adopted her, were nice and caring people but they had already raised two boys so they knew the proper way to handle Ashley’s behavior. Instead of just yelling at her when she did something wrong, they would explain why it wasn’t the right thing to do so she could …show more content…
Ashley didn’t have an easy life like most kids her age but she never gave up. It did not matter what difficulty her case worker or foster parent threw at her, she always got back up. Some incidents were more challenging than other and she didn’t always handle them with grace, but she never backed down. No I don’t believe that she should have had to encounter all the things she did, but she learned from it all and is a fighter because of it. Instead of her giving up when things got tough, she pushed through and now uses it as motivation to help make a difference for kids in the foster care