Angela's Ashes Extract
Angela's Ashes is an illuminating story written from a child's perspective. The language of the book is simple, and the author recalls the memories of his youth with ease. The story mixes humor with the reality of poverty and depression. With McCourt's dialogue, he effortlessly speaks with an “innocent eye”…
Dialogue, innocent eye, dialect, use of quotations, comic relief. Intro here!
The use of dialogue throughout Angela's Ashes is well-chosen. When McCourt is in his younger years he uses a language that a five year old would use and so on throughout his life. His vocabulary is not that of an adult because he is a child in the story. It is amazing how McCourt can recollect exactly what happened when he was a child. "...Malachy is stirring beside me. Frankie, I want a drink of water...I fill a cup of water for Malachy and me and my mother wails, Water for you and your brother. Oh, indeed." (35). He seems to know every detail and show it with such clarity through his use of words and dialect. Its effectiveness is primarily due to McCourt's evolving 'innocent-eye' narrative technique. He allows the reader to experience his own …show more content…
Most of the memoir is emotional, but with the comedy that McCourt inserts it makes a very readable balance. Even though his father was a drunk, he was in poverty, and their house was a cesspool, McCourt still wrote humor because he was writing as a child. As a child not everything is taken as seriously as it should be taken or would be taken by adults. For example McCourt uses the quote, "I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live." He uses this to make the audience laugh about his father and how he would tell his stories while intoxicated. In reality, McCourt probably needed some kind of comic relief to help himself get over the pains and struggles as a
Dialogue, innocent eye, dialect, use of quotations, comic relief. Intro here!
The use of dialogue throughout Angela's Ashes is well-chosen. When McCourt is in his younger years he uses a language that a five year old would use and so on throughout his life. His vocabulary is not that of an adult because he is a child in the story. It is amazing how McCourt can recollect exactly what happened when he was a child. "...Malachy is stirring beside me. Frankie, I want a drink of water...I fill a cup of water for Malachy and me and my mother wails, Water for you and your brother. Oh, indeed." (35). He seems to know every detail and show it with such clarity through his use of words and dialect. Its effectiveness is primarily due to McCourt's evolving 'innocent-eye' narrative technique. He allows the reader to experience his own …show more content…
Most of the memoir is emotional, but with the comedy that McCourt inserts it makes a very readable balance. Even though his father was a drunk, he was in poverty, and their house was a cesspool, McCourt still wrote humor because he was writing as a child. As a child not everything is taken as seriously as it should be taken or would be taken by adults. For example McCourt uses the quote, "I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live." He uses this to make the audience laugh about his father and how he would tell his stories while intoxicated. In reality, McCourt probably needed some kind of comic relief to help himself get over the pains and struggles as a