ANGELA'S ASHES
Last week I went to Receive and during the flight I read more than 200 pages of Angela's Ashes book. During these 8 hours, I couldn't stop reading until the last page (which, by the way, is missing in my copy and I don't know how the story ends). I started reading the book about two months ago, and I found it very interesting, but I was always very busy to read it faster. When I "dived" into the book, it was like I were reading in Portuguese and I was so fond about how the story was going to end, what would happen to those miserable people, wrapped on a chain of bad bolts from the blue, one after another. I never heard or read such a story when nothing goes on for the good. When I was thinking, during the reading: "well, now things will gets better", another disgrace happened and McCourt family went down and down to the end of the tunnel without any small light to help them. I always thought about countries like Ireland in terms of first world, people having jobs, a place to live in, reasonable wages, no hunger, etc... I know the difficulties countries in Europe were through during the World Wars but I never thought about such a misery like McCourt family went through the years they lived
127) Poor kids, always dressed in old clothes, going to school barefoot or in pieces of flopping rubber, making themselves reason for mockery from the other students in better economic situation (whose fathers had a job and didn't spend all the wages drinking), always starving and drinking tea with fried bread and only on special occasions like The First Communion they had a boiled egg and only because Grandma invited to breakfast at her house. O'Dea's, his master, told him that "Confirmation means you're a true soldier of the Church and that entitles you to die and be a martyr in case we're invaded by Protestants or Mahommedans or any other class of a heathen. Joseph! What's porridge! Porridge is porridge. They were there to learn what teachers told them and no wandering questions should be asked. " (New York University Library, researched on the internet. The way teachers treated students in public schools those days is clearly presented during the story. I couldn't forget Christmas and the "wonderful" meal; the special dish was pig's head given by some charity institution. Masters didn't like answering questions about what is this or how this work. Religion was very important for Ireland families like the McCourts and they didn't like the protestants. I want to tell them I won't be able to die for the Faith because I'm already booked to die for Ireland". " Another factor in McCourt's favor is the love with which he was reared by both parents. Reading--the route to an inner life of stories--was equally important.
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