Rachel's Short Story: Foster Home

The story that I am telling you today is about Lita Morgan. A little girl who was adopted at the age of two by a cruel woman, who turns into a torturous nightmare in her childhood and adolescence. Christine Morgan forced her daughter from 4 years old to countless of cruel situations which broke her little soul and body. The abuse included: make her drink bleach from a cloth used to clean toilets, holding her head under the bath water until she felt breathless, and the constant threat to kill her.

Many children prefer to live with their parents, so they always think the foster care system is the bad guy. Living with strangers is bad enough for them but to add on some foster homes are abusive. Foster Care goes all the way back to the Old Testament, which the churches require widows to care for orphaned children (“Care” 1). It would be a miracle that someone would treat the children like their own. Many foster homes are abusive just like the one Ashley had. Year after year, the increase of foster families is due to drugs, abuse, economy, financial, and psychological problems (“Care” 1). In this society, there are many problems that lead children to have the feeling of worthlessness. It is really sad how many children are in families of irresponsible parents. Child abuse occurs when a parent or caretaker physically, emotionally, or sexually mistreats or neglects a child resulting in the physical, emotional, sexual harm, exploitation, or imminent risk (“Care” 1). It is disgusting how people would do this stuff to kids. These people have no heart and should be punished. Not everyone gets punished, but when the time comes, they will get what they deserve. Ashley’s book shows how her difficulties in foster homes were troubling. Many professional readers enjoy reading about her hard times.

When I was in 7th grade, one of my counselors told me she has this friend named Lilly when she was my age. She was in the foster care system and was staying with a great woman in a small yellow house. Before she was put with this family, she was with a man that abused her mentally and physically. Therefore, she was what some would call “crazy.” Bright lights would terrify her and it was hard for her to communicate with people. Lilly only trusted my counselor and couldn’t even trust her foster mom. She was unable to stay with her foster mom because Lilly was too much to handle because of the abuse in her past. She left just a little after a month and went with another foster family. It saddens me that a sweet little girl like Lilly has gone through so much pain and terror at just 11 years

Another way to deal with past regrets that is brought to light is the idea of repressing that memory in the first place. Unlike her sisters, Rachel Price is the only one who ignores her guilt. After Ruth May’s death and their departure from Nathan, Rachel rarely ever brings these major events up again. Instead she talks about her new life, speaking about her newest boy toy and complaining about the African’s culture. The night of Ruth May’s death, since Rachel is

Throughout the book, Rachel had the most character progression. Initially, Rachel was too scared to go against her father than to defend her friend. She tells Drummond about a recurring dream she had, "But I was more scared of him [her father] than falling (Pg. 55)." Ultimately, Rachel apologizes to Cates after the case and finally forms a stance of her own on

Throughout the book Rachel maintained diction that was true to her birthplace. In the beginning of the book, when the Price family just arrived to the

Rachel does everything she can to unlock the truth. Rachel first talks to Megan’s husband, and originally decides that he could not have been the one who killed Megan. She then goes and talks to Kamal Abdic, the man Megan was having an affair with, but Rachel despite the police reports comes to believe that he would never have harmed Megan. At this point Rachel is not satisfied and goes and talks to Scott again, but she finds him intoxicated and he physically abuses her and locks her in a room, she eventually is released, but by now she thinks Scott is the culprit. That is until she has a flashback from the night she was drunk and remembers seeing Megan getting into Tom Watson’s car, Rachel’s ex-husband. “I’d inserted the image of Anna, walking away from me in her blue dress, into another scenario: Tom and a woman getting into a car. Because of course that woman wasn’t wearing a blue dress, she was wearing jeans and a red T-shirt. She was Megan” (Hawkins 272). With this evidence and the evidence Tom’s new wife found, Megan’s cell phone. The two put the pieces together and come to realize that Tom had an affair with Megan Hipwell, and when she did not want to end it he killed her instead. (Do I need a

Rachel would like nothing more than to be the new girl. She wants to forget the tragic accident in Chicago. When she moves to Portland, she finds herself having a hard time fitting in. As a biracial teenager, who just lost her family, most would count out Rachel as a contribution to society. Rachel made mistakes along the way, but she had her destination in sight. Grandma tells Rachel that, “You’re gonna go to

She is under a realization like the Protagonist of Deshpande. Rachel in the quest for her identity says,Make me to hear…Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. (JOG, 208)She finally cannot retort to the difficulties she faced in her life. She is all wild with her silence response. She admitsI am fine only in dreams Rachel’s association with Nick is the significant event in the novel which brings her to realization.

In order to get away she moved away from Tom, who lives in Whitney, she moved in with an old friend from college, Cathy. However, Rachel never is able to stay away from Tom because in order to go to work she needs to take a train that passes by Tom’s and his new wife, Anna’s, house. However Rachel does not pay attention to Tom but to a couple that reminds her of her past. Their names are Megan and Scott, Rachel found it comforting the watch them and believe that they were the perfect couple. Which can be seen by stating,“They’re what I lost, they’re everything I want to be” (24, P. Hawkins).

Rachel grew up in a house hold where she had to grow up really quick. In her early teenage years she witnesses her mom struggle through abusive relationships with her step dad and other boyfriends that came after. She eventually became an alcoholic. By the time Rachel was 13 year old, she dropped out of school to take the role of the emotional and financial care taker of her mother. Living in her

Lost, was all that she could think, for the girl had given up hope so long ago. She knew no one would come to her, to save, to free her from this dreadful cage. They continuously beat the frail girl to the colors of black and blue. This had made her feel like a abused animal. Although the pain lessen with each beating, she got.

Lucynell could not speak or scream for help, so she instinctively bit down on her attacker’s hands. A large yelp that she was unable to hear came from him, but she promptly turned around to get a view of whoever grabbed her. To her surprise, it was the same man who worked at the diner and gave her the ham and grits. Tears began to run down her face and she started running in any direction she could that was far away from him. The man grew angry at her attempted escape and chased after her until he got a grip on the back of her dress and pulled her back to him. There were no signs of him letting her go for a second, for she was just so angelic and beautiful to him. He forcefully carried her back to a running car that was ready to go and threw her in the back seat. The car drove off at an alarmingly fast speed far far away from that diner and her

When the teacher Mrs.Price made her put on the jacket Rachel wanted to start crying just like a three year old would do. But she remembered that she was at school that had made her want to end the day so fast. “I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky,so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.” This piece of evidence shows that she wanted

She wasn’t able to sleep, and had experienced yet another nightmare. A loud clanging noise rang out through the plain hallways of the prison. “Get your nasty selves up and into the cafeteria, ain’t no time to be late!” an older, hoarse voice yelled out. Moaning noises escaped many mouths of the prisoners, who were exhausted after a night of barely any sleep. The woman in Robyn’s cell stood up, groaning, and nonchalantly walking out the door. She followed the woman, stress and a little fear flashing within her eyes. Prisoners walked through the hallways in one direction, single-file line, speaking not a word. Some of the more dangerous prisoners had handcuffs locked around their wrists and ankles, and the clashing of the metal against each other made a horrific noise. Once everyone had entered the cafeteria, some sat down at the plain, metal benches, while others got in line to get their food. Robyn, with a growling stomach, stepped into the line to get food. She looked over at the food that sat in the trays, and gagged a bit at the sight. Gross-looking, mushy scrambled eggs sat in one tray, and another had some brown-black liquid that looked absolutely disgusting. Robyn stepped out of the line, through all of her hunger. She could not eat that “food”. All of a sudden, within the light chatter of the room, a loud banging noise was heard. Everyone immediately turned heads to look for where the sound was coming from. It was the roof. Robyn set her eyes upon the ceiling, and her mouth dropped open. There, dressed in all black, with a scarlet ribbon wrapped around their head, was Mark. He dropped down from the ceiling from a rope, in which he grabbed Robyn without any words, and was pulled up. Once they got to the roof, Robyn´s heart pounding, she saw security guards screaming out codes below, and two men that stood on the roof with them. They must've been the ones to pull them up with the rope. ¨Wh-what's going on?!” she nearly