What can define the kindness of strangers? How they look or talk? Or just who they are as a person? How can you tell if you are actually getting help, or just getting pity? Can those two things really be the same thing? After all help is help no matter how you get it. Think about these question as I evaluate both “Angela’s Ashes”(McCourt) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”(Twain).
Being poor is always hard, and being poor in Limerick, Ireland during the 1930’s seemed to top the cake in Angela’s Ashes written by Frank McCourt. Moving from New York with grief and no money in their pockets to the poor areas of Ireland seemed to further the depression. Relying on help from others is what kept the McCourts alive. Money is hard to come by when you have an alcoholic father who spends every cent on drinks. Plus adding the fact more often than not he loses his jobs within 2 weeks of obtaining it, which adds on more frustration. With no job to get money to buy food it seems like it would be pretty …show more content…
It seems almost always that children affect the way things are approached. It tends to go as if this shows that if you have or are a child you need more help. This case is shown in “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” written by Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn is a child who hated the idea of being civilized and runs away from his abusive dad. Help is given almost instantly as the first night he finds a slave -from back home - named Jim. At first Huck was just planning on telling someone and go on being alone. Then he is with Jim for a while and realizes that he hates being alone. Right away he finds out that he just needs the right type of company. Throughout the story, Huck and Jim find themselves in many different types of trouble. Sometimes the help of a random person seemed to do just the trick. Whether it was advice, directions, food or just someone’s opinions. It did not matter as long as they had each
Being poor is always hard, and being poor in Limerick, Ireland during the 1930’s seemed to top the cake in Angela’s Ashes written by Frank McCourt. Moving from New York with grief and no money in their pockets to the poor areas of Ireland seemed to further the depression. Relying on help from others is what kept the McCourts alive. Money is hard to come by when you have an alcoholic father who spends every cent on drinks. Plus adding the fact more often than not he loses his jobs within 2 weeks of obtaining it, which adds on more frustration. With no job to get money to buy food it seems like it would be pretty …show more content…
It seems almost always that children affect the way things are approached. It tends to go as if this shows that if you have or are a child you need more help. This case is shown in “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” written by Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn is a child who hated the idea of being civilized and runs away from his abusive dad. Help is given almost instantly as the first night he finds a slave -from back home - named Jim. At first Huck was just planning on telling someone and go on being alone. Then he is with Jim for a while and realizes that he hates being alone. Right away he finds out that he just needs the right type of company. Throughout the story, Huck and Jim find themselves in many different types of trouble. Sometimes the help of a random person seemed to do just the trick. Whether it was advice, directions, food or just someone’s opinions. It did not matter as long as they had each