FREE ESSAY ON ANGELAS ASHES

ANGELAS ASHES

Analysis
I think that Angela's Ashes relates to the historical theme of Change, Cooperation and
conflict, relation to 
environment, and movement. This novel was a memior about Frank McCourt and all the
hardships that he endured. 
He had to deal with the deaths in his family, his way of living, his family's poverty and
his father's 
alcoholism. Thorughout this novel there are many things which bring the feeling of
sadness to the reader's mind. 
There were many changes in his life, in the beginning there are six family members.
Suddenly, a new girl is born 
Margaret. Margaret excites the entire family because she is the only girl with her
brothers Frank, Malachy,Oliver and 
Eugene ( the twins). Soon Margaret is not well and dies unexpectedly. Next the twins die.
There are a total of 3 
deaths in the first chapterof the novel, so you can see how these deaths bring suffering
to the family. I took this idea 
as a Change & movement, there is a change in there family. After Margaret dies Malachy
and Angela decide to move 
back to Ireland to live a better life but instead it changes and they lead a worse life.

Another aspect of Movement was that Frank's dream was to move to America. Franky decides
when he 
is fourteen that he will be able to save up enough money to move back to America by the
time he is eighteen. He 
works very hard but is forced to give most of his money to his mother for food. When his
father leaves, Frank 
becomes the man of the house and is forced to feed the family. He cooperates with his
mother to make it through 
the hard times. Well this isn't exactly a war but, it is a conflict between life an death
(hunger). 
By having to deal with their way of living I mean that they didn't live in a very clean
environment. Well 
they did live in the ghetto. They could have lived with Angela's mother but unfortunately
she did not accept her 
Son-in-law. She always mentioned that he was a protestant plus he was from the north part
of Ireland and it 
was a disgrace that her daughter had married him. Catholics and Protestents don't agree
with eachother. 
Well, Angela and her family lived in a house near the putrid smells of the lavatory that
was used by the entire 
street to empty their chamber pots. They could only afford to live in a house of bad
conditions. Their beds were 
full of fleas, they changed and washed their clothes once every month, they sometimes had
to go through trash 
cans to look for food. 
The People of Limmerick, Ireland, where the family mainly resides, have many strong
prejudices against 
the poor. The family is constantly tormented because of shabby clothes or poor housing
and having to ask 
charities for help. The store managers try to cheat the poor out of the full amount of
food they are to be given. 
Also, the religious of Limmerick discriminate against poor children as in the case when
Frank McCourt tries to 
become an alter boy but is denied. Mrs.McCourt explains why he is denied by saying  They
don't want boys 
from lanes on the alter. Oh, no they want the nice boys with hair oil and new shoes that
have fathers with suits 
and ties and steady jobs(149). The McCourt family is constantly aware of the
discrimination it faces because 
of the poverty they live in. I relate this to Realtion to the environment.