Ashleigh's Mistake

The daughter had a life plan. She wants to be successful even though people will alienate her for the fact that she has the qualities of someone from a low income family. “In pottery class I’m making a jar with a lid. If it comes out all right I think I’ll use it for a jewel box as we don’t ever eat marmalade. Jolley demonstrates that the sister knows she does not have a lot of things that people high up on the social status would normally have. The author uses characterization to provide the reader with an insight of how each individual lives in a low income family.

When Mr. And Mrs. Panessa gave the idea to Mr. Schlegel about credit, they were trying to be kind to him since they knew he didn't have the money to pay back for it. " Willy looked like a dog that had just had a licking but Mr. Panessa, after clearing his throat, chirped up it didn't matter, he could pay the rest whenever he wanted. He explained that everything was run on credit, business and everything else , because after all what was credit but the fact that people were human beings, and if you were really a human being you gave credit to somebody else. " But even so, Mr. Schlegel began to abusing the idea of credit, and spent more than he could pay . He starts to avoid going anywhere near the store, since he couldn't pay back for the bill, and built up guilt while doing so. Soon later, Mr. Panessa begins to get sick, so Mrs. Panessa sent a mail to Mr. Schlegel asking for money. Mr. Schlegel got scared about the bill, and didn't help the . In the end, both side understood regretted the idea of kindness. Mr. Panessa dies, and with the loss of money, Mrs. Panessa was forced to live with her selfish daughters. Mr. Schlegel and his wife had to live with the regret of their debt and the death of Mr.

If there will be little downtime in between when the money is used and when it is gained back. On page 2 it disclosed, “All I need to do is put together a little financing, and I will be set for life.” The money that Ashleigh’s dad needs is going to be made back supposedly very soon. If so, that means that there is a good chance that Ashleigh’s mother wouldn’t even notice that the money was gone. If more evidence is needed, Ashleigh’s dad went out and said it. Page 4 read, “I’d have the money in your hands no later than Friday.” That would make it very likely, assuming that all goes to plan, that the statement sould be true. Additionally, Ashleigh herself asked if she could help, not her father. This would explain that it was only a favor that she brought onto herself. The compensation was really just a kind of thank-you gesture towards Ashleigh if she takes up the offer. On page 3 it disclosed, “‘Can I help?’ I asked.” The burden of asking was not Ashleigh’s father, but on

Sara's father wanted to control everybody else's lives, in his family, but he did not want anyone telling him how to do things. He felt that he should be able to control the family spendings even though he did not earn a penny. He went against his wife's request and used every penny of their savings to buy the store. His wife asked him, "Promise me that you won't pay out the money till I come to see what you buy." (113). He went ahead and bought the store without letting his wife come down to see it first like he had promised her. He made a huge mistake then, just as he had with his daughters. He did not pick a good husband for any of his daughters. He was fooled not only by the store owner but also by the daughters' husbands. The reason he made all these mistakes is because he would not listen to anyone's advice. If he had listened to his wife, he would not have bought the store because she would have been with him, and she would have noticed something was wrong because she was already suspicious. She says, "Does he really ask only four hundred dollars for all this?...Ask him to give you a pencil to count up all the goods there is in stock." (114). She has more sense about business then he does, but he gets to be in control of all their money. Today, women have more of a say in what goes on with the financial part of the family as well as with who they are going to

Flannery O’Connor’s short story The Life You Save May Be Your Own, takes place in a rural area with a few powerful main characters, and though the literal meaning is not challenging to comprehend, the symbolic and metaphorical meanings are much more complex, requiring further analysis. One of the most touching and relatable themes in the story is that redemption is often overlooked because of personal greed.

Happiness is an abstract feeling. One Throughout the book, her nomadic family lived in extreme poverty where the children had to scramble for survival. Walls describes her family’s eating habits similar to those of cacti because “we ate irregularly, and when we did, we’d gorge ourselves” (22). Money would provide food for the Walls as rain would provide cacti their nutrients to survive. Jeannette assumed the responsibilities of head of the household when she was at the mere age of thirteen because her parents abandoned their roles as guardians. Looking from Wall’s perspective, money could solve several of the family’s problems such as their perilous living conditions and the constant need to feed their hunger. In addition, Walls’s mother Rose Mary was an artist. Every time the Walls received a paycheck, Rose Mary would sneak some of the funds to fuel her passion for arts. When Rose Mary received her inheritance from her deceased mother, she wanted to forget her responsibilities and spend the money to create more paintings. Abraham Lincoln said, “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Rose Mary could use money to bring her happiness indirectly by purchasing art supplies. Thus, if money can fuel their passion and needs, then it can indirectly bring the individual

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

There are characters, which the migrants in the novel encounter, who take risks to help a person in poverty. At the beginning of the novel, Tom tells the driver of the red truck, "´ But sometimes a guy will be a good guy `" (11). Mae, who is unwilling to give a loaf of bread to the Joads, finds herself selling two pieces of candy for less than their value. The man at the register in the camp were the Joads were picking peaches lent Ma a dime. Ma needed sugar for Tom's request for coffee but was a dime short. The man was not allowed to lend money without a slip. " He looked pleadingly at her.   And then his face lost its fear. He took ten cents from his pocket and rang it up in the cash register." He took a risk of losing his job for Ma. The people that seem unwilling to help out usually have a good heart. They don't want to see the anguish and the pain these migrants have suffered. They want to help, but there is only so much a person can or is willing to do. The man who owned the gas station had lent gas to previous migrants who gave him dolls, furniture, and other utensils. The junk he got in exchange for

Picture having to save up your money for something you want but having to use the money for your family’s needs, that’s the life Doris is forced to live. “Stray” by Cynthia rylant is a story about a girl named Doris who lives in a poor family, instead of

Brittany Pilkington has admitted to murdering her three young sons. She says that the reason she murdered her sons was because her husband was paying too much attention to them. She murdered her son Niall in July 2014 when he was three months. She murdered her oldest son Gavin in April 2015 when he was four years old. Brittany murdered her youngest son Noah in August 2015 when he was three months old.

The problem that Anna is informing the reader about is hunger during the summer. The rate of hungry children goes up when summer comes around. It is not because their parents are out of work or homeless it is simply because they do not get paid enough. “The people who run food banks report that most of their clients are Minimum wage workers

Karen did everything for her kids without any help. Things got hard for her sometimes but she made sure that her kids had everything they needed. She was in a terrible situation and she didn't want her kids to know and have them worry about it. She had a two weeks to pay her rent and she didn't know where she was going to get the money. There was some money she had save up but it was for her kids dance class. Karen didn’t want to take her kids out of their dance class so using that money wasn’t an option. She had to figure out what to do before it was too late.

Thesis Sarah made it clear in the story that Sylvie and her grandmother needed the ten dollars. Sylvie the main character wanted to make the young man happy also. Sylvie dreamed about what her grandmother and she would do with the ten dollars. Sylvie awakens one morning with the idea she would find the White Heron. Once she found the White Heron she realized the bird’s life is more important than the ten dollars. I believe the author Sarah Jewett, wanted everyone to realize sometimes the wants and needs of someone else’s outweighs your own.

In the story, we see how the protagonist feels this immense sense of wealth as a the result of the fact that she found fifteen dollars. For many at the time fifteen dollars was a large amount of money. However, those fifteen dollars had a deeper meaning behind them. They not only represented wealth but they offered the opportunity to return

As a child, Mikaela was abused by his parents. His mother was delusional and his father was an alcoholic. His mother, after joining a religious organization, started to lose herself. She always called Mika a good child and told him that he had a special name. Mika always wanted to make her proud of him. Around this same time, his father started to pick up drinking. He would beat Mika at any chance presented to him, blaming his son for his wife's insanity. Mika would constantly sat he loved his father in order to try and make the beatings stop. This never worked, however. One night, his mother tells Mika to jump from the speeding vehicle they are in. He begs and pleas for her not to abandon him, but she pushes him from the car anyways. He sustains many serious injuries but is conscious long enough to see the vehicle collide into another vehicle on