Me or About Me

Me or About Me

The Real Angela Mike Beyer At the beginning of the story “Angela’s Ashes” we encounter the McCourt’s, a poor Irish-American family nestled away in the slums of Brooklyn New York sometime in the early 1930s. Angela is married to Malachi McCourt, who is from north of Ireland and a served time in the war. While in New York Angela has three children, Frankie, Malachi, and Margret. Margret dies at birth and this causes Angela to plummet into an unfathomable depression. For weeks Angela does nothing but sit in a murky coroner weeping, while her young children are lonesome and starving. The dad is out drinking his liver to collapse, and the two lasting children are forced to steal to subsist. Finally one of the McCourt’s neighbors helps out, by feeding the two boys and trying to nurse Angela back to sanity. Eventually Angela comes back to life, rejuvenated and alive… but the damage has been done, it’s just that no one notices yet. Angela and a few of her relatives make a decision, a decision that is going to spiral the McCourt family slowly into hell. They decide to move the family to Ireland, in hopes of finding work and a better living, they were gravely mistaken. By this time it is no surprise that the family has two new additions, two twin boys by the names of Eugene and Oliver. When the family arrive in Ireland, they go to Mr.McCourts family dwelling, it is in the North, and the author shows us how appalling it is, recounting how sick everyone looks and how they have no pluming. Mr.McCoutr’s family is of no help in the slightest bit, they send him and his family to Limerick, telling him that he will find work there easy and become a wealthy man…they are wrong. The family arrives in Limerick; witch is in the south of Ireland. They go to Angela’s mother’s house, the place in witch she grew up, and we meet her family witch consist of a handful of impoverished bitter Irish people, each one more rotten then the other. Naturally Angela’s mother patiently torments her...

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