My Lost and Found Life (Pgs 60-123)

Summary: 

This section of the book is when Ashley starts to feel the effect of the ecstasy that Tattie had given her. After a while sitting on her living room floor talking about how they parents are, they decided to go out to the club. The entire time Webb, Tattie's friends, took care of Ashley making sure that she drank enough water. When the got back, to Ashley's house, her and Webb got more acquainted with each other. That the woke up with each other the next morning, but Webb didn't want a relationship or anything serious, and Ashley understood that and he left. The rest of the day Ashley felt depressed and could not stop thinking about the night before her mother disappeared. After a couple of weeks Ashley decides to go to Gloria to get her too look at the bills. After looking through the stack of bills Gloria tells her that she is going to have to find a new place to live, find a job and also sell or keep the stuff that is in the house, because she was getting evicted. While talking to Gloria they got on the topic of her mother dating someone else. Gloria could not believe it especially her being her best friend, that she would not tell her that she had broken up with Phil. She starts to look for an apartment but, by the time she looked at three apartments she had seen that first she needed a job because people needed to know that she was going to pay for the rent. Knowing that she did not have a lot of time left she started her garage sale and was encountered by one of her others co-workers, who wanted to speak to her. After two days she meet him at a restaurant and found out that Curtis Davidson was actually very close to her mother. That he was the one that had helped her mother steal money from the company for years. So Ashley with the help of Nicole decided that she would send and anonymous letter to the company and IRS to check on Curtis Davis's record.

Quote: 

"You know, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned ." (Bowser 122).

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When I first saw this line i knew that it sounded familiar so I decided to look it up. I found out that it was from The Mourning Bride, which was written by William Congreve. He was an English playwright and a poet. However this is not the exact quote but it has been paraphrased over the years. the original quote is "heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." I think that this quote means that there is nothing in hell or in the world that is worst than when a woman is angry. I agree with this quote because I think that it is true. For example when i was in middle, I had a dean who when got angry the entire school could hear her voice, which would scare the fifth grades half to death. When I read this quote I couldn't believe that Ashley would send an anonymous letter to the Company and IRS to mess up Mr. Curtis Davidson's career. I think that the moment of her life going down the drain, made her do this. She should at least see what she is doing before she tries to mess up his life, because two wrongs do not make a right in life.

My Lost and Found Life (Pgs 1-59)

Summary: 
Ashley is a senior and before she even graduates her mother disappears and she is confronted by a cop. He tells her that they are looking for her mother because there has been one million dollars stolen from her company that she works at and now she is nowhere to be found. Wanting to know more about what was going on she called Gloria her mother's best friend to see if she knew anything but she was no help and neither was her mother's boyfriend Phil. Hours passed by and there was no call from her mother. Ashley found it hard to go to sleep so she stared out the window until at one point she fell asleep. The next day she went to school because she could not stand waiting for her mother. During class she got a blocked call but there was no response at the other end of the line. She decided to tell her best friend Nicole about what was happening. While they were talking Ashley decided to go to Phil's job. When she gets there she finds out that her mother had broken up with him and that she had been spending more time at work. A newspaper article was written about her mother the next day and everyone at her school treated her as a criminal. This didn't stop her from going to her graduation. That day she wanted to stay home but instead went out partying with an old friend named Tattie. The next day Nicole was at her front steps saying good bye to Ashley before she went to her trip to Hawaii. Having nothing to do Ashley goes back to Tattie's house and they go to a club where Tattie gets some ecstasy. They drive back to Ashley's house and have a little party with some friends and take some ecstasy to help Ashley cool off a little.

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"When I hugged her good-bye, I held on tight for a few extra seconds, comforted by the reassuring arms of someone who cared about me. Then I let go." (Bowser 49).

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Ashley says this when she is saying good bye to her best friend Nicole who was leaving to go to Hawaii with the rest of her classmates. I think that this line shows symbolism because she is letting go of the only person that cared about her.  It symbolizes her living a life of her own without people that cared for her like her mother and best friend.  Even though it was the most hardest thing to do to let her best friend go she had to do it because she couldn't stand in the way of Nicole's life because her life is going down the drain. When I read this line I could not believe that someone's own mistake could affect another persons life to the point that their life is ruined and everyone has left her, and now shes in the world by herself. It is like she is in a maze with no exist. I think that Ashley and her mother don't even have a normal relationship, because she call her mother by her first name and before she disappeared she, Ashley tried to avoid her mother as much as possible.