Friday, November 23, 2007

Angela's Ashes Review.

In Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, the stetting is very descriptive. You can almost feel as if you are right there with them because the images he describes are so potent in detail. Angela's family is very poor, and the way the family is depicted gives off a very sad feeling. You can almost feel yourself standing beside the while the dig for bottle caps in the dirt hoping to find money.
Frank McCourt was an important character. He wrote in a perspective of an adult looking back on what happened as a child. From the beginning of the book until the end he goes through many stages of emotions. He ends the book with a lot of guilt because he feels that he has sinned. Angela McCourt was a very important character as well. She was a lovely human being. She is the type of character you read about that feel welcomes you into the book. She also goes through many stages in the book. She has to deal with her husbands violence and alcoholism, and three of her children’s death. She is a strong woman who always puts her family first however. She takes pride in her family and would do anything to provide for them.

Angela's Ashes is a book that makes you appreciate your family and what you may have. They do not take for granted what they own because it is not much but it is there's. A feeling that is most felt while reading this memoir is sadness. The problems they have to go through could break any humane person's heart. All together Angela's Ashes was an inspiring book.