Summary:
Ashley and Patrick go out to ear again before he leaves Thursday. After a night out she spends three nights with Patrick. She kisses him goodbye and just like that her romance with Patrick is over and he goes to Ireland. However her thoughts are not about Patrick instead about her mother. For thanksgiving she goes to Gloria's house and the only thing she can think about is missing her mother and wanting to hear her voice again. When getting gas she meets up with Cindy, Nicole's mother, and finds out that she is going out with Phil and that she is the reason why she is staying in the camper. Ashley goes back to Gloria's house to get some money from the cabinet in the garage. While searching she does not find the money and tells Gloria. For Christmas Ashley goes to Earl's house and spends it with his grandchildren and his daughter. One day at the coffee house a crazy comes in and lights the coffee house on fire and Ashley has to rush and get everyone out. She finds out that Jerry and the crazy man dies during the fire and is in shock. She denies that she is not okay and goes back to the camper. Few days pass by and she starts to get sick to the point that one day Earl had to call Strobel, a cop that was keeping an eye on he since her mother disappeared. She is sent to the hospital and gets many visits from Mal, Nicole, and from Gloria. After a while staying at Glora's she finds an apartment with two girls, gets a new job at a restaurant and starts to take classes at City College. While everything seemed like it was going great Strobel comes to her with news that her mother is dead and was found near Curtis's cabin and that she might have been there for a year and Boone had ever noticed. Gloria plans to arrange a funeral and a few people attend. Life goes on but Ashley promised herself that she would never forget that her mother did it all because she loved her that she would risk her job and that all that mattered was the future.
Quote: "There's no one to call". (Bowsher 273).
Reaction:
This quote was said by Ashley when she was asked if she wanted them to call someone. I think that this was a very power moment in the novel because Ashley all of a sudden realized that she was all alone. Even though she already knew this but she had a epiphany that her mother was not going to be there for her or anyone else because people believed that it was cause of her that her mother stole all that money. I also think that this was foreshadowing because she is saying that she has no one to call, which could mean that her mother never came back. As we see her mother doesn't come back because she dies before anyone was able to find her. When I read this quote I could not see myself in that situation having no one to call during a horrible event like that. I think that if she did not get help that she would have been in a depressed state because a lot of things were going wrong in her life and this would just be another load for her to handle.
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