The Ashes

Angela’s Ashes Angela’s Ashes is a memoir written by Irish author Frank McCourt. The novel opens up with a description of how his mother and father met and wed. He’s mother Angela and father Malachy met in Brooklyn, New York. They soon got married when Angela got pregnant with Frank. Life wasn’t easy for his parents whom faced many challenges. His dad had a drinking problem and he constantly invested he’s wages to feed he’s hunger for alcohol. While his mother struggled to make ends meat to…

Everyone has their own dreams, their own struggles. Struggles will vary between people, but everyone wants to overcome them. The stories "Angela's Ashes" and "The Street" show how people often have to overcome struggles for their family through characters, settings, and events. The story "Angela's Ashes" demonstrates how people often have to overcome struggles for their family. One way, "Angela's Asnes" portrays this theme is through character's internal struggles. The narrator thinks to…

An Ember in the Ashes Sabaa Tahir “People who are meant to be together will always find their way back. They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost.” ~ Unknown ~ An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir is an adventure that takes the main character, Laia, through countless challenges in an effort to rescue her beloved brother from the treacherous empire. This experience required absolute persistence with Laia’s blood, sweat, and tears. Throughout this story, the three P.R.I.D.E traits…

Love in “Ashes” Susan Pfeffer’s short story “Ashes” is about an unfortunate girl, Ashes, whose parents are divorced, but she still loves very much. She lives with her caring, strict mother and visits her dad every Tuesday and Thursday. Her dad, on the other hand, does not really care about her that much, but acts like he does with some encouraging words, only using her to get help paying for his mistakes. One lesson this story suggests is that love can influence your decisions. From the start,…

American Literature has been around for a very long time, longer than anyone in my generation or even many generations before me. Literature has been a way for people to express themselves and to let the future generations know what has happened in the past. Without literature it would be very hard to document and teach history, and our favorite stories would not exist because nobody wrote them down for us to enjoy. Literature is the easiest way to keep people entertained and informed. But being…

How would your life be different if your family was in poverty and your father was an alcoholic? In the memoir Angela's Ashes written by Frank McCourt. Frank who is the oldest out of six children is the protagonist. Throughout the memoir Frank explains how his life was growing up in a poverty family, his father being an alcoholic and never being able to hold a steady job, and the death of his three younger siblings. In the novel, McCourts use of style, point of view, and use of literary devices…

provide for their families. Similarly, "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry both show themes of poverty but, more importantly, themes of persistence and how they continued to persevere when things get tough through characters, events, and setting. Frank McCourt and Ann Petry's use of setting reveals the theme of poverty, and how peserverance were used to strive when situations get tough. A quote from the story Angela's Ashes sets the stage for theme throughout the…

from Harry Potter to Kite Runner, I have devoured so many stories, my mind will probably implode by the end of the year. In my experience, I have found too many books that should have never been written, but there is one that was fantastic! I’ve had Ashes in mind for you for quite some time. By branching out of my typical genre of fantasy, I have found that I am fond of science fiction novels as well. Thinking back to freshman…

In his memoir, Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt, the protagonist and narrator, encounters various conflicts, many of which involve in his Aunt Aggie. Aunt Aggie is Angela’s sister and one of the many antagonists in the story. She is a miserable woman who resents the fact Angela married Malachy, a jobless, alcoholic Northerner, and she takes that resentment out on her American nephews. At one point, Grandma offers the children porridge, but Aunt Aggie feels she is being taken advantage of: “I don’t…

Jonathan Kozol’s novel, Fire In The Ashes, depicts families who were forced into homelessness in one way or another and were forced to live their lives in the inner cities of New York. Violence and drugs overran most of the neighborhoods, and the educational system simply pushed students from…