Angela's Ashes With Comparison to Pip
Frank McCourt, the narrator of Angela's Ashes, seems to be a very strange fellow. He spends much of his day dreaming about what it would be like to be rich and have a father who does not drink the dole money away every week. He plays with his little brothers and makes them laugh when they are too hungry to play anymore. Frank even steals food from the stores and people's doorsteps to make sure that his family has enough food for the night. In reality, he has taken over the job of "man of the house" from his drunken father. "They scream at me and tell me I'm filthy. I try to explain to them that Mam has the disease and that I'm worn out trying to make ends meet, keeping the home fires burning, getting lemonade for Mam and bread for my brothers. There's no use telling them about the marmalade for they'll only scream again." Malachy McCourt, Frank's father, comes from the North of Ireland. Malachy claims he was in the Irish Republican Army and is forever bragging about how he "did his part" for Ireland. Because he is from the "Protestant" North, he is viewed with distrust by the Catholic citizens of Limerick Because of his accent, It is hard for him to get a job. He also suffers from the "Irish Problem"--
Frank goes upstairs and opens her trunk. It is interesting that Angela stuck with her family the whole way through, even in the midst of all of these problems. One thing that is different between Frank and Pip is the benefactor issue. She is a very honest person and is described by the Italian neighbor in Boston, "Anything you like, missus, because I know you are an honest woman and you've got a bunch o' nice kids there. He also has a job writing threatening letters to people for missing payments on magazines. One reason for this is that they are both brought up poor and in unstable households. He still has the job writing threatening letters to people in the neighborhood until his employer dies. Comparison I believe that Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes can be compared to Pip in Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. On Friday he gets his wages and goes to the pub, gets drunk, comes home singing "Kevin Barry" or "Roddy McCorley", sleeps until noon the next day, and is fired for being late. The Germans started World War II and England is in desperate need of workers. Frank McCourt and Pip Pirrip are similar in the households that they were raised in, but are different in the ways that they achieved fortune. The McCourt family is poor and Malachy McCourt is jobless.
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