“Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir” by Frank McCourt is about a little boy, Frank McCourt, and his life in Ireland. Throughout the book, Frank tells us about his challenges and what happens throughout his life as a child and a teen, but he also shows us how he overcame those challenges and still kept his head held high. He has a drunk for a dad, Malachy, and a mother, Angela, who struggles to keep the family together. Some people may think the book is upsetting despite all of the deaths that Angela has with her children and all of the dramatic things that happen, but it isn’t upsetting at all. With Frank, when everything goes wrong, he always sees the brighter things in life; he believes that everything will get better.
Although Frankie has a lot of …show more content…
Frank learns from an early age that Malachy’s alcoholism is the cause of the family's troubles and he recounts the chaotic nights when his dad would come home with "the smell of drink on him," and wake the boys up to sing songs for Ireland (250). Whenever he’d do that, Angela would get so infuriated because she knows that he is as drunk as a skunk and she hates it. When Frankie witnesses this, he knows, in his own mind, that he doesn’t want to end up like his father and disappoint his …show more content…
He's got Rocky Balboa's spirit and Indiana Jones' ingenuity. And it's a good thing he does since life has truly dealt Frank a bad hand. “People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare to the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years,” even throughout his life, going through these battles, he still keeps his head held up high and doesn’t let them defeat him
Although Frankie has a lot of …show more content…
Frank learns from an early age that Malachy’s alcoholism is the cause of the family's troubles and he recounts the chaotic nights when his dad would come home with "the smell of drink on him," and wake the boys up to sing songs for Ireland (250). Whenever he’d do that, Angela would get so infuriated because she knows that he is as drunk as a skunk and she hates it. When Frankie witnesses this, he knows, in his own mind, that he doesn’t want to end up like his father and disappoint his …show more content…
He's got Rocky Balboa's spirit and Indiana Jones' ingenuity. And it's a good thing he does since life has truly dealt Frank a bad hand. “People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare to the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years,” even throughout his life, going through these battles, he still keeps his head held up high and doesn’t let them defeat him