Angela's Ashes Essay
In today’s society, we as Americans of the United States—the younger generations—often well-overlook the struggles of our parents, grandparents, and so on. The United States of America is globally referred to as the land of opportunity. The reason why we take for granted the fact that we are very fortunate as to being provided with an education and if you are a member of the middle-class society, everything in life might seem very great and easy for you—maybe too easy. Despite the struggles one may grow up with though, however difficult or unforgivable as they may seem, everyone should rest assured so that they can have the ability to believe in themselves and persevere towards your purpose in life, because anything may be accomplished
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McCourt proves to us that in order to achieve success in life, there must always be a struggle that one must overcome. In this case it was an external struggle McCourt had to plow through. Surprisingly enough, a perfect metaphor that goes hand-in-hand to this theme is that in order for a plane to achieve flight, it must be confronted with air resistance otherwise the plane will not take off safely. This lesson was taught to me by my grandpa from Cuba over the summer. How this relates to the story though, is that we were constantly shown the constant struggles McCourt faced while growing up as a member of the poverty-stricken lower-class society of Ireland. One of the many problems young McCourt, or Frankie, was confronted with was the fact that he was aspiring to be an altar boy at his church, receiving Latin classes from his father—and showing great potential to work there—but when asking for the position at the church accompanied with his father, they blatantly told him “There's no room for him” (p.149) right to his face and slammed the door on them. Much after this happened, he later grows up to be a school teacher after immigrating to America for a better life and received several awards for writing this story including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, proving to us that despite the problems one will face growing up, achieving success is possible. To conclude, finding
McCourt proves to us that in order to achieve success in life, there must always be a struggle that one must overcome. In this case it was an external struggle McCourt had to plow through. Surprisingly enough, a perfect metaphor that goes hand-in-hand to this theme is that in order for a plane to achieve flight, it must be confronted with air resistance otherwise the plane will not take off safely. This lesson was taught to me by my grandpa from Cuba over the summer. How this relates to the story though, is that we were constantly shown the constant struggles McCourt faced while growing up as a member of the poverty-stricken lower-class society of Ireland. One of the many problems young McCourt, or Frankie, was confronted with was the fact that he was aspiring to be an altar boy at his church, receiving Latin classes from his father—and showing great potential to work there—but when asking for the position at the church accompanied with his father, they blatantly told him “There's no room for him” (p.149) right to his face and slammed the door on them. Much after this happened, he later grows up to be a school teacher after immigrating to America for a better life and received several awards for writing this story including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, proving to us that despite the problems one will face growing up, achieving success is possible. To conclude, finding