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A 7 page analysis of Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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about his poverty-stricken and disease-ridden childhood in Ireland (Ascher-Walsh 58). It is not a happy or even heartwarming book necessarily, but a book that presents the reader with many of
the most horrible realities faced in one individuals childhood. The following paper summarizes and analyzes this particular book. Angelas Ashes The second paragraph of McCourts work, in many
ways, sums up many things that will be seen in the book: "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was,
of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable
Irish Catholic childhood" (McCourt 11). In this paragraph we see that McCourt was not happy about anything in his childhood. He illustrates how he wonders how he even survived
such a horrible existence. In the first paragraph we learned his parents left Ireland for the United States, only to return to Ireland because the United States did not prove
to be such a wonderful land. We see powerful resentment that introduces us to the novel of McClouds childhood in Ireland. This story takes place in the 1930s and
the 1940s when McCourt was a child and young adolescent. It is a story that speaks of how hard it was growing up with no one who truly seemed to
care, aside perhaps from McCourts mother whom the title of the book refers to. He speaks of his father, an alcoholic who could never keep a job, speaks of near
starvation, the deaths of several of his siblings, and many other hardships. There is also the element of religion and politics within the book as McCloud examines the Catholic
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