By the time, McCourt’s family got in Ireland, life was tough. The rainy Irish weather created various consumptions, which was easily transmittable both McCourt’s twin brothers died because of the poor health condition. It was common to bury beloved once, it is clearly mentioned in the book when Angela hand on her dead son for the undertaker “…Missus, I drove dozens o’ children to the graveyard an’ never once fell out of any seat, high or low” (McCourt 93). Later in the book, we learned that McCourt got hospitalized from his typhoid and meet a young woman named Patricia Madigan who used to tell his poems. This hospital experience actually helped McCourt to develop his reading skill. He was introduced to Shakespeare for the first time. Because of the books that he received from the hospital staff members he learned different English histories. In a way, it helped him shape his writing skill.
McCourt was a very talented writer and a good reader and his ability made him have peculiar jobs like writing threatening messages and reading …show more content…
Even though he attended a primary education, he was not permitted to continue his high school education only because of his social class: “ We don’t have room for him, says Brother Murray and closes the door in our faces.” (McCourt 337). Things got more completed and difficult when McCourt and his family forced to move out their home because they couldn’t pay their rent and on top of that, they destroyed the wall to use it as a fuel. Hence, they had no other choice but to live with Angela’s abusive cousin, he treated them as his personal servants: “Angela, this chamber pot is full, and she drags chair and table to climb for the chamber pot, empty it in the lavatory outside, rinse it and climb back to the loft. Her face gets tight and she says, Is there anything else your lordship would like this day? And he laughs, Woman's work, Angela, woman's work and free rent.
McCourt was a very talented writer and a good reader and his ability made him have peculiar jobs like writing threatening messages and reading …show more content…
Even though he attended a primary education, he was not permitted to continue his high school education only because of his social class: “ We don’t have room for him, says Brother Murray and closes the door in our faces.” (McCourt 337). Things got more completed and difficult when McCourt and his family forced to move out their home because they couldn’t pay their rent and on top of that, they destroyed the wall to use it as a fuel. Hence, they had no other choice but to live with Angela’s abusive cousin, he treated them as his personal servants: “Angela, this chamber pot is full, and she drags chair and table to climb for the chamber pot, empty it in the lavatory outside, rinse it and climb back to the loft. Her face gets tight and she says, Is there anything else your lordship would like this day? And he laughs, Woman's work, Angela, woman's work and free rent.