angela's ashes vs. color of water
Mother’s play an important role in the lives of their family’s. How a mother reacts, can make or break their family. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, and The Color of Water by James McBride are two novels that portray a mother who stuck by her family in poverty and the results are tremendous in the lives of McCourt and McBride. The poem by Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish contains a mother who also lived in poverty yet broke a family. Later in the family’s lives the effects of the lack of mothering they had was devastating. Angela’s Ashes and the Color of Water both demonstrate behavior that can be considered a family living in poverty. A deprived family is one that fails to meet some or all of the basic needs of its members. Sometimes these needs, such as food, shelter or clothing are so basic that people take them for granted. More often, emotional needs, such as the need for love, support and security go unmet. Drugs, alcoholism, death, abandonment, starvation and anxiety are some characteristics of a deprived family that can be found in both Angela’s Ashes and The Color of Water. Just because a family is poor does not mean its members do not love each other. In the Color of Water the stepfather dies creating an new and unhealthy en
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Approximate Word count = 1309
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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