Angela‘s Ashes is a memoir of Frank McCourt. In this book McCourt writes about his experiences during the American Great Depression. Having troubles, his family leaves to return to Ireland believing that life will be easier there. McCourt also shows the reader the hardships that befall his family in Ireland. One thing about the book that I really disliked was that McCourt only states the events and how they happened and does not say how he feels about what is happening, or give his opinion. He explains things in a matter of fact sort of manner. This type of writing can become more like reading a history textbook and you may not understand the author’s feelings about the things happening to him.
McCourt tells about his experiences in America in the first chapter and the rest of the book is about the hardships in Ireland. Among these hardships are the deaths of his sister and twin brothers, poverty, an alcoholic father, and a mother that becomes a beggar in the streets. However......
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