e reader is right next to Frankie McCourt as he went through his afflictions. Frankie's father, Malachy is a real character. He was a type of father that Frankie wanted to hate and despise, yet couldn't. As much as Frankie remembered the bad times that his

re a man with an accent from Northern Ireland (p. 63). The Labour Exchange paid 19 shillings a week, Awhich was less than four dollars in American money.@ (P. 63). Five shillings went to pay the rent, the other 14 shillings had to be stretched in order to buy food, clothing and coal to heat the home, for six people. (P. 63). Frankie's mother knew that 19 shillings were not enough to support them all, so she went to a local relief program called the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which gave money to family's who were not economically stable. It seemed that Angela would do anything to put food on the table, even if it meant lowering her pride or using the death of her daughter to gain the sympathy, of those in control, of handing out weekly stipends, for food. The times were difficult in Ireland and there were many people in serious need of relief. The women who were the most pitiful and the most humble, received assistance from the Society. When Malachy once again drank away the !

, became a beggar at the Repemptorist Church and it is even insinuated that she slept with a family friend (Laman Griffin, who took in Frankie and Angela when they could not pay the rent) in order to convince him, to let Frankie to stay with them and throw him out into the streets. A woman who was once filled with pride, and walked with her head high, was forced to humble herself, in order to save herself and her children. Limerick was seen as the holiest city in Ireland because it has the AArch Confraternity of the Holy family, the biggest sodality in the world.@ (P. 126). With Limerick being so holy, I would assume that the Catholic Church was a strong entity full of compassion for the poor and practiced forgiveness, do onto others, turn the other check, etc. I was flabbergasted in reading, how ill treated were the students in the Catholic schools there. The school masters beat the children with rulers, humiliated the children physically, emotionally and mentally in front of!

promise to die for Ireland. Dying was something that everyone in the McCourt had experience with because it seemed as if everyone around and within their family, were dying. Death, in Angela's Ashes was an integral part of everyday living. The McCourt's children were frequently in and out of hospitals. Frankie was placed in the hospital for over a year due to a thyroid condition and it was here where he meets and loses his first love. In total, three of Frankie's siblings died due to malnutrition complicated with a weak immune system, desolate living conditions and illness. Throughout McCourt's story, Malachy and Angela were different from one another, as night and day. Frankie's father never changes. Drunk, penniless, unemployed with a starving wife and children, he did not let his pride falter. He wouldn't be seen carrying bags because that was a woman's job even though, his wife would be hunched over filled with pain, while carrying them, nor would he lower himself to colle!

ilities that his father was unable to handle,

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Approximate Word count = 2020
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)