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.
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.
Quote:
"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).
Reaction:
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.
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