Angelas Ashes

Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes described the hard times and pain in his life, pain that no person should have had to endure. After losing his baby sister Margaret and twin brothers Eugene and Oliver, to disease and bad parenting, McCourt went through terrible times himself. Regularly subject to malnutrition and neglect, he came down with the typhoid fever, spending weeks in the hospital, and an unrecognized, persistent eye infection that came close to blinding him. In life people learn from their mistakes and sometimes, like Frank McCourt, from hard times that, while painful, can be of the greatest benefit from among their experiences. It shapes them into the people they are and brands them, leading them to be high achievers in life. Moreover, their achievements are more remarkable than those whose childhood were happy; they were marked by adversity and their drive to overcome and exceed expectations. A good life was not handed to them, but rather earned.
When Malachy leaves to England for work, the whole family is happy because they will be receiving money from him every so often. Being able to buy actual food and affording electricity would have changed the McCourt’s lives. This changed the view of life for the McCourt family, finally having hoped that they will no long be starving and barley surviving. Malachy has had a history of spending his wages at the pub, while he leaves his family waiting in despair keeping their heads high hoping he will come through this time. After a while when the wages never came, Angela lost hope in Malachy, so the family had to keep living the hard life, picking coal off the streets and getting food from the local deli. In time Angela gets sick and the boys are left with their Grandma and Aunt. Durring the war, over a million Irish people died from starvation due to the fact most of the food was shipped to England to support the war effort. Many people started to depart from Ireland.
In the beginning of the book, McCourt’s