To begin, in the first passage "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt based on his actual impoverished childhood. This except from the story is showing what he had started doing to make sure that his …show more content…
This is about the trials and hardship that a single black mother living in New York City has gone through. What she has to go through on a cold November day in New York City. The passage talks of the violent assault of the weather mostly the wind. It also makes you think of judgement from people on the streets passing by these homeless people. The weather makes life so much more difficult on the stree. Being homeless shows how they struggle through the winter, where it is so cold.The wind violates all of them with the cold air rushing onto them making them feel naked whenever the slightest ounce of air touches a bare spot of skin. When she wants four rooms not two we can assume that they don't have many options or time. Giving that she will settle for three just to get out of the streets with violent assault of the …show more content…
The fact of both these stories are written in totally different places. As in the first story "Angela's Ashes" it is a memoir of writer Frank McCourt based in Limerick Ireland. The second story "The Street" wrote this story based in Harlem in the 1940's New York City, that centers around a character. In both of these excerpts it shows two different sides. The first showing of barely having a roof over their heads with a looney mother. The second talking of the wind and how it is assaulting while on the streets in