ASSIGNMENT #5

I am responding to the story Angela’s Ashes is a Pulitzer-Prize winning memoir written by Frank McCourt. The struggles he and his family went through while living in poverty-stricken Ireland is a very sad thing to go through but him and his family want through it. I like this story very much because easy to see that the McCourt’s are poorer than most of the other local families. Also, children can be very harsh sometimes and tease about others that are less fortunate. In this particular chapter of Angela’s Ashes the author is still a child and that is made evident through his writing. He asks his parents questions about life and is curious about adult life, or as he calls them, “Big People”.  He really wants to know was going on in life. He is also a very smart child to me. He was carouse about knowing a lot of things. I think this was a very successful and best-selling memoir that I have read. I feel like Frank McCourt wins over the audience because he is a helpless child while living in very poor conditions in Ireland. And people are curious to know about thing like that and what’s going to happened next. So I think he did a very great job. What is also interesting is that their family used to live in Brooklyn, New York before moving to Ireland