Summary Of Ashes By Susan Pfeffer

In current society parents’ actions affect their children. Being divorces, fights, or their struggles all these and more affect their kids. These taken scenarios affect the minds and emotions of kids. In “Ashes” a story by Susan Beth Pfeffer, the main character Ashes or Ashleigh faces her parents divorced, and given her parents’ actions take a toll on her feelings. After evaluating Susan's character Ashes, her emotion, personality and conflicts it reveals the theme parents affect their children.

It is my position that parents create more problems and make the current situation worst. These then affect the train of thought of children, as seen in the story “Ashes”. These decisions taken make things worst, and including their child in the struggles