... its individuality including an effective story line, style of writing, point of view and characterisation. Angela's Ashes has a riveting storyline. It is about Frank McCourt's childhood from the time he was born to his voyage to America. He was born in New York but because of the death of his sister ... to Limerick, Ireland. His father was a drinker and squandered all his wages to feed his habit. He couldn't sustain his job and as a result, McCourt, his brothers and mother, Angela, lived in dirty, poor conditions. They couldn't even meet their essential needs. His two twin brothers died b...

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• Grade Level: High School

... women throughout many books written by men have been cast out and not really mentioned, Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, does a good job showcasing his mother honesty in his memoir. Nothing is glossed over when readers are shown Angela McCourt. She was a victim of her town Limerick City and her family. She was ... to shape the family into something she knew could be, but time after time, she failed. Angela McCourt's miscarriages, dying children and drunken husband; she was the victim. Within six years, Angela McCourt was pregnant seven times. She had one miscarriage and had to bu...

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In Frank McCourt's memoir, Angela's Ashes, the reasons for which Angela and her future husband Malachy left Ireland for New York are quite clear. Angela was sent to New York by her mother: ... for Malachy, he escaped to New York because he had a price put on his head from fighting with the IRA - as a fugitive his only way out was to run. The McCourt family was never a really happy one: not only did it start as an unfortunate mistake, but there were plenty of more unfortunaties yet to come ... . Frank was merely a little child, but having no choice he witnessed it all from the perspective of ...

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... also left lasting impressions on me in many different ways. The books are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Things They Carried by Tim O"Brien and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I happened to read all three of these books in the last few months, and all of them shocked me with their depth, meaning and significance to my life personally. I read ... book, Angela's Ashes, had a similar effect on me on a personal level. This book is about a family struggling with poverty in Ireland. My great-grandparents moved here from Ireland, and reading Frank's personal account made me just...

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• Grade Level: High School