Ice break - English essay
Ice Break is a short story written by Astrid Blodgett. The story is told in a first person narrator and is from the main character Dawn's perspective. Dawn are at a ice fishing trip with her dad and her younger sister when the car falls into the water and her dad tries to safe them.
The story is about a girl named Dawn and her family. Dawn, her father and her younger sister are going to ice fish with their uncle Rick as a family tradition. Her mother doesn't want go and her older sister is babysitting a kid down the street. The mother warned the father about going because it was late season and the ice wasn't good, and that's the reason she doesn't want to go, but in reality its because the parents have a lot of problems. They drive off to the frozen lake, looking for uncle rick. Suddenly the ice breaks and the car fall through. The father tries to help Dawn out of the sinking truck by pushing her out of the car window. Afterwards he tries to help the younger sister out but it's too late. The father and younger sister drowns in the car. In the end we hear about the younger sister Janie and their dad's funeral. The story ends very tragic.
Dawn is a regular girl, she lives with her father, mother and her two sisters. Dawn doesn't want to go ice fishing with her father just the two of them. She doesn't like to spend time with her dad alone because she got uncomfortable when it's just the two of them, so she pays her little sister to go with them. "But i really wanted her to come. I didn't want to be alone with Dad. He was always grouchier when it was just him and me. He was scary when he got mad. And he never knew what to talk about with me so it was uncomfortable"(Page 4). That strongly suggests that dawn and her father isn't that close. Dawn babysits and the first time she did it, she got a new five-dollar bill which meant a