In Pulitzer Prize winning, Angela's Ashes, a memoir, Frank McCourt demonstrates his ability to provoke healthy and thoughtful laughter throughout his seemingly depressing work. How, as a young boy, Frank survives - is still a phenomenon that plagues and questions even the most spiritual of readers. Whether it be by act of God, or sheer luck and good fortune, the reader is wholeheartedly listening and learning as Frank teaches his childish art of thoughtful laughter.

As a youth, Frank, lighthearted and as innocent as ever, looks at his portion of life in a day to day journey. Frank takes the smallest things to heart, instead of looking at the whole picture. He looks at personal triumphs and mischievous acts in a boyish sense. Instead of recognizing the entire picture, like the ramshackle houses and the deteriorating surroundings. Frank looks at Angela ( his mother) distantly throughout the novel. She loves Frank, and relies on Frank later during the novel, but there always remains a certain distance that is present in their relationship. She always puts her family and herself in strenuous positions ~ by having another child, being ill and useless, by being submissive to other men

For a long period of time, Frank would pray to the "angel on the seventh step " for well-being, attention, and his family. He easily made light of their rummaged house when it flooded every winter, and the family had to relocate to "Italy".

I want ye to stand in the middle of the pub and tell every man your father is drinking the money for the baby. Ye are to tell

"...We'll go back to St. Joseph's and pray that from now on everyone in Mickey Spellacy's family dies in the middle of the summer, and he'll never get a day off from school again for the rest of his life.

"...We'll go back to St. Joseph's and pray that from now on everyone in Mickey Spellacy's family dies in the middle of the summer, and he'll never get a day off from school again for the rest of his life.

" I want ye to go back down to that pub and read him out of it.

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Approximate Word count = 1622
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)