The Cruel Causes Of Divorce

Divorce is hard and cruel. It is something that rips apart your family and rips it apart really fast. Ashleigh has divorced parents. In the city of England her Mom and Dad live 2 bus stops away. Her Dad is always in debt so he asks for a favor from Ashleigh. She is asked to take her Mom's money, she gets to the teapot and stops to think about what she should do. She could take it to make her Dad happy or take it to make her Mom mad and upset. Ashleigh did not take her Mom's money because she wouldn't do that to her Mom, her Dad wouldn't pay her back, and her Mom would be disappointed in her.
Every daughter never wants to let down her parents down but when it comes to her Mom’s earthquake money it's different. In the text, the author states “ I looked out the window and saw only ash-grey sky. In the cold stillness of the night, I could hear my …show more content…
He was always harder to her when they fought. But ashes are cold, grey, dead things, Mom yelled. It;s just a nickname, Dad repeated, a little quieter” (Pfeffer 1). That was just one fight that they had and her Mom thought it was a bad nickname which would make her Mom mad, because Ashleighs Dad would always call her that. Seems like Ashleigh and her Mom don't always get along but she also does have good days with her “ With Mom, there are a lot of rainy days and she takes a grim sort of please in being ready for them… The extra quarters when the laundry isn't quite dry” (Pfeffer 1). Ashleigh believed her Mom for a little when she said the nickname was pretty much bad for a little, “ I made a list that evening of all the words the rhymed with ashes-- smashes, and crashes, trashes and bashes, clashes and mashes --and it didn't seem quite so nice anymore, having a special name. But then Dad gave me roses or sang a song he’d written for me” (Pfeffer 1). Then her Dad convinced her that it wasn't bad at all it was a good nickname for his “...one-in-a-million girl” (Pfeffer