Essay about Ice Break

The story is about a girl who lives with her siblings and parents. Her name is Dawn. Her father wants to go ice fishing. Her mother do not want to come, she never does. She says it is to late in the season now, and she has some financial work to catch up with. Uncle Rick and the father thinks the ice will hold, and still wants to go out. Dawn has to go with her father, because they do these things sometimes, where one kid, goes with one parent, some quality time together. Dawn does not want to go with her father, she talks her sister, Janie, into coming with them. An older sister, Marla, is going to be babysitting in another family this day, so she can not come, but while they are still at home she tells Dawn that she knows something that Dawn does not. She wont tell Dawn and Janie what it is, but tells them that it is about Mr. and Mrs. Pichowsky, then she leaves out the door. Dawn knows that Mr. and Mrs. Pichowsky got a divorce a year before, but does not want to tell Janie, because their mother had come into the kitchen again.
Janie already knows that Mr. Pichowsky went one way and Mrs. Pichowsky another with the kids. So the kids are separated from their father.
They drive out to the lake and see lots of others sitting on the ice. They drive along the lake for a while, then turn and drive out on the ice, the same place as all the others. They have driven a long way onto the ice, when it breaks under them. The father tries to get Dawns seatbelt of, but it is very hard because the car is tipping forward so her weight is laid into the seatbelt. Dawn feels like she cannot hear anything, when the ice starts to break. After a while it is like the sound is turned on again.
The father smashed against the door several times, to open it, so that he can get Dawn and then Janie out. When he hits the door, it cracks a little open, and they can