My Lost and Found Life (Pgs 186-243)

Summary: 

After a rough night sleeping in the damp camper, Ashley yelled at Jerry for snapping her bra, as a joke. She also called on him for always starring at her and always watching what she is doing. She embarrassed  him to the point that Jerry leaves the coffee house. Mal her boss who is also gay, agreed with what she told Jerry. however he told her that she should try not to make everyone run away from the cafe because they need costumers. While Mal was doing one of his usual routines, which was talking to Patrick, Ashley was listening to their conversation. Without an invite she entered the conversation and told them some very good advice in Mal's perspective about relationships. This conversation was able to show the reader that even though Patrick was six years older than Ashley she had a thing for Patrick, and the feelings were mutual. After a long day at work she went to the camper and fell asleep. The next minute she heard banging at her door and thought it was a robber. Waiting for five minutes in the silent camper she went to check on Earl. She found him on the floor blending so she called the ambulance and Phil. So for the night she went to Gloria's house and slept in her car for the night and left early in the morning. Later that day she rented a room to sleep in and got reacquainted with Tattie. Who had quit her job because she got sick of old men looking at her naked body for money. While at a book store she meet Patrick who was so amazed that he would find her reading. She left the bookstore and he followed behind her, after walking with each other for a while they decided to go get a cup of coffee to drink. While drinking coffee they started to talk about their lives, and find out that they both like movies and plan to go to the movies latter that week. When they meet up to go to the movies they make more plans with each other and Ashley finds out that he was going back to Ireland. So they plan to spend a weekend together at his friends cabin. That is when Patrick finds out that Ashley is six years younger than him but Ashley did not care because that was the best time she had since her mother left her.

Quote: 

"No, he couldn't have known you were there." (Bowser 205 ).

Reaction: 

This quote was said by Earl to Ashley when she went  to go see if he was okay after the robbery. When i read this quote, and image of someone going to Ashley's camper popped in my head. For  a while I thought that the person that went to her camper was her mother. I thought this because if it wasn't the robber then it would be someone that Ashley knew. And if it was the robber i think that he would have been more aggressive. Would had broken the lock to get into the camper. But how it was described in the book, it felt as if someone was trying to warn Ashley that something was wrong instead of trying to steal her stuff. It was part of the book that i thought that her mother had come back for her daughter and was going to bring her with her. But instead the reader just does not know who the mystery person is. I believe that by the end of the novel we will find out who the stranger was by the end of the novel.