2. What connections are there between the book and your life?…………………….3

3. In what ways are you like any of the characters? Do any of the characters remind you of other people? Explain…………………………………………………………...3-4

4. What effect does the book have on your own beliefs?……………………………4

5. What is the most important word in the book (or in a particular chapter or section)? The most important passage? The most important event? Explain…………….………….5-6

6. What parts of this book are worth reading again and again? Why?…………….7-8

7. What parts (aspects, elements) detract from the book’s overall effectiveness?

Why?………………………………………………………………………………8

8. What patterns have you discovered in the text

(plot development, characterization)?…………………………………………...8-9

3. I could see myself connecting with Malachy, Frank’s little brother. He is a smiling child who is aware of the situation, but also does his best to see the best of it. His smiling face sometimes gets him candy from kind people. I can also see a relationship between Mrs. Leibowitz, the family’s neighbor in New York, and myself. She is not a very rich person ,but has more than the McCourt family and she helps the boys when they need it. She has a son and a husband, but never complains about giving Frankie or Malachy something to eat when they were hungry.

5. The most important word in the book is a word that is not expressed, but anticipated and understood. That word is “freedom.” Frank strives to gain his freedom from poverty, from his father, from Ireland. But he isn’t the only one. Angela also tries to gain her freedom from being completely dependent on her husband, who hasn’t done anything for her but get her pregnant over and over and over again. Malachy, Frank’s brother, receives his own sense of freedom when he goes to the Irish Army to play the trumpet in the band (McCourt 283). Malachy, Frank’s father, never acquires freedom from his problem and it serves him right. Just as long as he n longer affects his family and brings them down into his bottomless pit of despair.

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Angela’s Ashes, Oliver” McCourt, Bill Gavin’s, Laman Griffin, Frank McCourt’s, Table Contents, Ireland Frank, Malachy Frank’s, Sacred Heart, Aunt Margaret, frank’s father, laman griffin, angela’s ashes, worth reading, cycle poverty, malachy frank’s, frank’s father malachy, reality life, read memoir, gain freedom, northern accent odd, death children, pattern seen frank’s, pick coal road, 5 word book,