Check Point #3: Analysis

     I have been reading the same book for a week or 2 now and I keep refering back to an earlier chapter, chapter 2. I do this so often because it helps explain some of her issues with her father and their relationship together.
     In this chapter Emmaline actually finally for the first time e-mails her father. Which is all started when she was in 5th grade, 10 yrs old, and she had a project on her family tree. This communication started with a letter then it went to emails where they talked about school and her classes. These discussions as she grew closer to applying to a college turned to her applications and what school she would apply to and that he would pay for every thing.
  "A week later, the first book arrived. Test Best: Preparing for the S.A.T., I think it was called, although in the months following he sent so many more it was hard to keep them all straight. Books about taking tests, writing powerful essays, making your application stand out, ..." pg.35 (The Moon and More).
  This was how her months proceeded after the dinner she had when her father and his family came down to visit Emmaline. But all of this information made her mother nervous with her past knowledge that Emmaline's father wasn't very good at keeping promises. She says "It was a big promise, though, coming from someone who did not exactly have the best track record. This was somethining my mom, in particular, could not ignore." ... "But money and promises were real. as was the disappointment I'd feel if he wasn't able to deliver. 'I just don't want you to get your hopes up,..." pg. 36 (The Moon and More)
   She is backed by this when she eventually gets a response from Columbia that she got in but when e-mailing her fater she gets a response a while later "I am so sorry to have to tell you this, but due to unforseen circumstances, i will not e able to supplement you tuition to Columbia." pg. 38 (The Moon and More). So she is left with a full ride to East U her parents most favorable choice.
  This chapter in the book makes her and her fathers relationship go sour so she is very uncomfortable when ever she talks to him now when they later meet for dinner.