... is moaning by the fire, and the bullying schoolmasters. McCourt did a great job on explaining the main theme of the story. One of the quotes in the story that explain hunger is, "Michael who is only five but won't understand anything till he's eleven like me wants to know if ... Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the...

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