Angela's Ashes Research Paper

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Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 19, 1930. He was born to Malachy McCourt, his father, and Angela Sheehan, his mother. He had four younger siblings: Malachy, the twins Oliver and Eugene and Margaret. McCourt was an Irish-American writer and teacher. His novel, Angela’s Ashes, which was a dramatic memoir of the squalor and misery of McCourt’s childhood, won a Pulitzer Prize. One of the important locations of involved in the author’s life and works is Ireland. Since McCourt’s family was in the midst of the Great Depression, they had to leave New York because they were poor and move back to Ireland. In Belfast and Dublin, the family wasn’t able to find steady work. Being beset by McCourt’s father’s alcoholism, the family returned to Limerick, which is where the mother is from. In Limerick, they fell deeper into poverty. All of these locations very much do play a role in the Pulitzer Prize winner, Angela’s Ashes. But ‘Tis, another narrative of McCourt’s life, focused on his life after returning from New York and picking up where Angela’s Ashes left off. …show more content…
His father left Limerick when Frank was eleven to find work in factories. His father was to send money back home to support the family, but he rarely did that. He abandoned Frank’s mother and he left his four children on the brink of starvation, leaving them in deeper poverty than before. Frank was forced to find a job on his own to support his family in Limerick, so he obtained a post office job at the age of thirteen. If it wasn’t for his father, Frank wouldn’t have been ejected from school or be compelled to get a job. His mother was another important person in Frank’s life and she inspired him the title: Angela’s Ashes. Through it all, her alcoholic husband, the death of her three kids, and the poverty, Angela never gave
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