My Lost and Found Life 100-160

Summary


With fall just around the corner and everyone getting ready for college Ashley feels lost and out of place. She wants her old life back, but we all know that's not going to happen, so Ashley is doing her best to live day by day. To make some money she had a yard seal, she made 3,500 dollars and now she needs to find a place to live and a job. One thing that hurts Ashley is when she hears her friends talking about their mothers in a bad way. For example her friend Tattie wanted to get away from her mother and her other friend Nicole wanted her mother to fall down a mine shaft. But all Ashley wanted was to see her mother. In addition, the day of her yard seal a man name Curtis Davidson came to see her and wanted to talk, it turned out that Curtis was a friend of her mother's. Ashley thought that her mother was hiding at his house, but it turned out to be false. It turned out that Curtis and her mother was dating and he wanted to get in touch with her, and he thought that Ashley knew where she was. Just when Ashley thought she was close to finding her mom, she's back to square one.


Quotation

"Again, I had to fight back tears. It used to take a lot to make me cry, but circumstances had changed me into a rive of tears" (Bowsher 101).

Reaction

Ashley is slowly getting use to the idea that she is alone. She went from having everything handed to her to having no one by her side. the transition is hard for her, but it's part of growing up and becoming an adult. She is learning about the sacrifices that her mother did for her and how hard it was to take care of her and the house. It took her a while to realize it but she did to bad its to late.