Poverty during Frank McCourt’s childhood
When we look back our childhood to remember the once joyful and free-spirited moment of life, it makes us keep on dreaming of our childhood but this is not true in Frank McCourt’s case. When we review his childhood, all that comes to mind is devastation, death and poverty that followed the lives of many families in the time period. I think the people who have not heard or read the story of Angela’s Ashes want to know how did the members of the McCourt family suffer the poverty; how did the McCourt family manage their constant hunger living in poverty, and how did family’s poverty in New York differ from their poverty in Ireland and how did Frank gain as a result of living in poverty?
The main reason why the members of the McCourt family suffer the poverty is a Mr. McCourt’s alcoholism. In Angela’s Ashes, alcoholism is a major theme, and becomes the destroyer of the families and forced to suffer from poverty. In Angela’s Ashes, Malachy’s leads him to use his paycheck to buy alcohol instead of using it for the basic needs of his family. Not only this, but he is blind to what his behavior is doing to his family because …show more content…
Such incidents as stopping Frank McCourt’s education and taking a job to support the family. Frank McCourt forced to take a job mostly because his father Malachy is an alcoholic and drinks his wages in local bar. Frank McCourt describes the pattern of drinking away the money by saying “when dad comes home with drink smell there is no money and mom screams at him till the twins cry (p.42)”. This situation lasts until Malach leaves to work in England and never heard from again which forces Frank McCourt to take a job and takes the role of the head of the family. The members of the McCourt family are also forced to beg and steal in order to continue to maintain livelihood. Frank’s mother
When we look back our childhood to remember the once joyful and free-spirited moment of life, it makes us keep on dreaming of our childhood but this is not true in Frank McCourt’s case. When we review his childhood, all that comes to mind is devastation, death and poverty that followed the lives of many families in the time period. I think the people who have not heard or read the story of Angela’s Ashes want to know how did the members of the McCourt family suffer the poverty; how did the McCourt family manage their constant hunger living in poverty, and how did family’s poverty in New York differ from their poverty in Ireland and how did Frank gain as a result of living in poverty?
The main reason why the members of the McCourt family suffer the poverty is a Mr. McCourt’s alcoholism. In Angela’s Ashes, alcoholism is a major theme, and becomes the destroyer of the families and forced to suffer from poverty. In Angela’s Ashes, Malachy’s leads him to use his paycheck to buy alcohol instead of using it for the basic needs of his family. Not only this, but he is blind to what his behavior is doing to his family because …show more content…
Such incidents as stopping Frank McCourt’s education and taking a job to support the family. Frank McCourt forced to take a job mostly because his father Malachy is an alcoholic and drinks his wages in local bar. Frank McCourt describes the pattern of drinking away the money by saying “when dad comes home with drink smell there is no money and mom screams at him till the twins cry (p.42)”. This situation lasts until Malach leaves to work in England and never heard from again which forces Frank McCourt to take a job and takes the role of the head of the family. The members of the McCourt family are also forced to beg and steal in order to continue to maintain livelihood. Frank’s mother