Money Hungry

Over the summer I read a book called Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake. Money Hungry is about a girl named Raspberry she lives with her mother in the projects. She is obsessed with money, then one day her house gets robbed and her and her mother has nothing so they have to live on the streets again. So they move from each friend’s house to another sleeping there for a night. Until Raspberry and her mother go to odd job's house and Raspberry's mother surprises Raspberry by telling her she bought odd job's house from him.
 Raspberry and her mother have a great relationship they are closer then most mothers and their children. But if you think about it they kind-of have to be close. They have to be close because they lived on the street together Raspberry found out how much she means to her mother. But if Raspberry and her mother weren't close then her mother would've given her up for adoption or to an orphanage a long time ago to save money. That would've been good because then Raspberry would've gone through all of that trouble she probably would've been adopted by a rich family and could have had what every she wanted. But that could also be bad because the one-day she would be curious about her birth mother then find out the hard way that she is poor and not like her. Then Raspberry could grow attached to her birth mother then her adopted parents could forbid her from every seeing her birth mother again. So any way is pretty bad.
 Raspberry had a good relationship with her mother and that's a good thing because with out a mother or any parent you are force to grow up faster then you're supposing to. Like if a girl and her parents don't talk they never have dinner together then that girl has to make arrangements by her self. Like she has to tell herself to do her homework or make herself food at a very young age and that's not healthy. So don't take your parents for granted you need to talk to them. It’s better for you to know your parents then to not know them at all and remember they love you no matter what.