Summary:
Forgetting that she sent an anonymous letter, she went along with her job search. However she was stumped when the managers would ask her if she had a resume. After a couple of interviews she created her resume. But she started to see that many places do not want someone that has no experience and just got out of college. couple of interviews later she was able to get a job at a cyber cafe for $8.50 an hour. Even though it was not the best job in the word, Ashley still took the job because it was better than nothing. After a long time of thinking she also decided that she had to start to change her life style. She choose to give her cat, Stella, to Gloria to take care of because is was going to cost her more money to take care of her and also have to buy her food. then she asked Phil, her mother's ex-boyfriend, if she could live out back of his garage in his camper. after some consideration and quick thinking he believed it would be a good experience if she lived by herself and told her yes. But for safety she had to make sure no one saw her go into the camper because her living there is illegal. The next day she started work at nine, she was late for work because she was too busy looking for a parking spot. But she did not get in trouble for getting to work late, on the first day she started to learn her co-workers and and learned many different skills. After a couple of weeks working hours at the cyber cafe she started to notice that a lot of people would just talk to her freely about their life, and at one point she had saw that she had to make up lies about her life, so that people would not know the truth about her. after Tattie came from rehab she meet her at he job and Ashley found out that she got a job as an exotic dance. But she could not believe that Tattie would expose her body to strange men, they both got into an argument to the point that Tattie stormed out of the cafe. After living in the camper for a couple of weeks Ashley and Old Earl, person that is one the night shift for Phil's business, started to get more acquainted with each other and started to tell him more about her life and her mother and Earl would just sit and listen until it was time for closing.
Quote:
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." (Bowser 185).
Reaction:
Old Earl said this quote to Ashley while they were talking, and he said that this was one of his favorite quotes including others. the reason why i chose this quote was because i mad me think and read the line twice.When I read this quote I kind of agreed with it because if you do not know anything about someone then that means that you cant categorize them as someone that is abnormal or weird. This got me thinking if the people that I know are normal. I guessed that some people were normal like those people that i barely knew at school and teachers and strangers. because i do not know them at all and i just cant categorize them as weird because how they look. Like the quote "don't judge a book by its cover". Looking at the novel, Old Earl would be considered normal to Ashley because she barely knows anything about him because he just listens to her, and gives her advise instead of talking about her life. Ashley would not be considered normal to Earl because he knows a lot about her, but a question that i had was then what would Ashley be considered as to Earl?
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