Thursday, January 18, 2007
Chapter I and First Class
On the first page of Angela's Ashes, McCourt says, "worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." In what ways was his childhood miserable? How did being Irish and being Catholic contribute to his misery?
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When he had to move from New York to Irland, people there were strong catolic, they discrinated him for been poor and his father was a devasteted alcoholic.
Erika
Catholics used to hate protestants, people from the south hate people from the north. The fact that Frank looks like his father, and his father was from the North didn't help. They used to treat him as a protestan saying that he looks as a Baptist and nothing good can come from the North (refering to his Dad).
I think Frank Mc Court felt miserable because he lived in Ireland with his family. Maybe he prefered to live in New York City where he was born. Another reason was because they were poor. And sometimes they didn't have enought money to buy something to eat. His father was alcoholic and he didn't work. That's why he didn't have money to support his family.
I think Frank chilhood was miserable because he was poor, living in bad condictions and weather, with a despair mother and alcoholic father. Being Irish and Catholic in that moment with all the problem between English and Irish, Cathilic and Protestans and the fact that he lived in Limerick in the south of Ireland didn't help because his father born in the north and people in Limercik were very Catholic and despised protestans and anyone who comes from the north.
His childhood was miserable for differents reasons,first when his family decided to come back to Ireland and he rather stay in the united States than come back.
Second, his father was an alcoholic that never kept a steady job and when he did work he spent the money en alcohol, so Frank and his brothers grow up poor and hunger.In that time being Irish and catholic meant that they have to work the land for the english and anglo-Irish who own the land which was bad because all the stuff they produced had to be send it back to England and they could eat only potatoes.
I think Frank had miserable childhood because his father was an alcoholic that means he could not support his family. When his family moved in Ireland he saw a lot of alcoholics and poor people.Also the bad climat in Ireland was a cause of different diseases. Moreover,there were polical and religion confrontations between Catolics and Protestants,government of England and IRA.
carlos said...
I what the author means is that back in those days, Irish families associated their unfortunate lives with God's will, and so his poverty and his father's "craving" for alcohol was often seen as something sent from God. Also when he loses his sister Margaret, the people around him say that God took the little girl.Last but not least Irish families from North werent seen with good eyes
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:03:00 PM
His childhood was misrable in two diffrences way; Frank and his family move from new york to ireland because people there were strong catholic and his father was a devastated alcoholic and he deosn't work to have money. Therefore all his family was poor , they were lack of food, this made the catholic people discrimilated against him, due to his father behaviour made Irish and catholic contributed to his miserable atitude.
The excessive use of alcohol in the irish comunity has caused poverty,and problem in their homes.being the children the ones who suffered most of the consequences making their childhood very miserable.Being a catholic didn't helped the children at all because parents who drink alot they forgot all about god and their family.
Frank's childhood was miserable because he had to come back to Ireland with his family. His family was very poor. Frank's father was an alcoholic. He spent the money on alcohol, so his family was hunger. His family had lack of food. Being Irish and being Catholic contributed to his misery because people discriminate against his family due to his father problem.
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