Once in a house on fire pg.84-120

Summary: Now living with her aunt back in England Andrea and her family seams completely happy. Andrea got accepted into an excellent grammar school, life seams set until her mother gets a job and they have to move to a rough neighborhood. Now they have to attend a new school and the kids around the neighborhood aren't very nice. They make fun of her hard accent and life's hard. Andrea's mother keeps seeing her step father now that everything between them is resolved and he seams to be recovered. My only hope is that they don't get back together because I fear the worst is yet to come. Quote: " We lived to tell the tale,didn't we ?" (Ashworth 97) Reaction: This quote made me hit a light bulb. This was said by Andrea's mother as she reminisced about life in Canada. The fact that she said that and is still seeing Andrea's abusive step father in a way makes me foreshadow that they will end up together again. These pages were full of memories and disappointment because of the family's living conditions. Yet I see nothing wrong with it because its better to be safe and poor than rich and abused.

Once in a house on fire Pg 40-86

Summary:  Andrea, her two little sisters, mother and step father all took a dramatic change, they moved to Canada! Andrea and her family moved to Canada to start a new life because during a visit her mother and step father decided it was a very good place to live. Half way across the world from their family and in a new continent with their abusive step father anything could go wrong, and everything did go wrong. Andrea’s mother had a far relative who lived in good conditions but also went through abuse, her husband died from a brain tumor. Everyone wished the same would happen to Andrea’s step father, besides the guilt. After a few months of living in terrible conditions and having went trough enough abuse, Andrea’s mother gathered enough money to move back to England and left her abusive husband, a happy ending, for now.

Quote:  “Life was to short, Auntie Penny had discovered over the years, to be anything less than sweet” (Ashworth 55)

Reaction: This novel so far seams to have some foreshadowing as shown in the last two quotes presented on my blog. Andrea shows that she as well as her other family members will learn and survive from the hard ships of life. In the end all of the events that are occurring in her life so far may be the things that made her who she is and allowed her to go so far in life.

Once in a House on firepg 1-40

Summary: So far this book is about Andrea's life after the death of her father. She undergoes a lot of pain and abuse by here step father who also abuses her mother. The catch of the story so far though is that the mother is going to make Andrea and her little sister have their step fathers last name so they can be a " legal " family. During the time the judge ask the girls question Andrea has a flash back of when her father once touched her the wrong way. Also how when ever he hits her he bribes her so she doesn't tell her mother. My main question is how will her mother ever find out about whats happening under her own roof.

Quote : " My grandmother had been forced to look at things differently years ago"

Reaction : So far in Andrea's writing I am able to see that she uses an emotional appeal to get the reader to understand her pain. Also she uses a lot of descriptive words that help me as a reader see how the events in her life happened. Every situation she describes in grate detail also she shows there's a meaning to it. The above quote has to be understood because its foreshadowing how she will also view life differently.