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Angela's Ashes Passage Analysis
These two passages compare because they are both about struggle and defeat. Hunger was the struggle in the Excerpt from Angela's Ashes and the excerpt from The Street was also about struggle and defeat. The main character of The Street, Lutie Johnson, dealt with struggle and defeat. In Angela's Ashes, Frank is plagued by hunger throughout his childhood. The Street starts with the passage describing the street and the author writes about the street as if it has a personality, a hostile personality at that. In the passage Angela's Ashes, Frank's father uses their money for food on drinks. Frank wanted to be so independent and successful, that he rather steal food than to beg for it. In the passage The Street, Lutie Johnson struggles against the

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