Humor and pathos come together when Frank steals bananas from the Italian, but later the same Italian gives him a bag of fruit. Frank knows that he can't buy the bananas and he knows also the Italian won't give them away seen when Frank says; " Italians are not known for giving away bananas" (p.35). We can see the humor in the theft as t

When the McCourts are at their new home, two weeks before Christmas, the children come home and find the whole downstairs flooded. They decide that they will stay up stairs, which they call "Italy" (p.118), and the downstairs "Ireland" (p.118). The humor in this tragedy is the house is so run down that water leaks in and floods the bottom. Instead of suffering and complaining about the house they move upstairs and make the best out of it and try to live normally. The reader should find this funny from the way the family talks about it, they try to make the situation more bearable by adding a sense of humor. They leave the "Pope" (p.118) downstairs because Angela doesn't " want him on the wall glaring at me in the bed" (p.118). The syntax used is to make the reader feel pity for the family when the whole downstairs is flooded but also the author want

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Approximate Word count = 579
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)