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 in
187 He had taken this conclusion because of his father, always making him and his brothers promised that they were going to die for Ireland. " Another factor in McCourt's favor is the love with which he was reared by both parents. Finally, I would like to mention the last scenes in the book, when Frank goes to USA, the scene in the ship, when he lives Limerick and feels very sorry and regrets about his decision. How lovely, isn't it? And to make things look better in Frank's life, he had to carry the pig's head for the whole Lane with all the kids staring and laughing at him. Masters didn't like answering questions about what is this or how this work. "First Comunion day is the happiest day of your life because of The Collection and James Cagney at the Lyric Cinema". The author's name is not mentioned) During the reading, the reader can easily notice how Angela, who was a beautiful and joyful woman in the beginning of the story, changes to a bitter and non attractive woman, loosing her teeth, gaining wage, almost becoming mad with the sorrow of loosing a daughter and the three boys, accepting the humiliation of living in Laman Griff's house as a favor, cleaning his chamber and having sex with him during the night. it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. Can one imagine a nicer Christmas' Eve than this? Maybe in some black humorous dream!Frank McCourt, the author, not the character, gives us a small portrait of the Irish way of speaking, sometimes using direct speech with all the slangs and accents Irish people speaks: "Jesus, Mary and Holy St. 210) " (New York University Library, researched on the internet. He discovered Shakespeare at age ten while confined to hospital, after almost dying of typhoid. I couldn't forget Christmas and the "wonderful" meal; the special dish was pig's head given by some charity institution.
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