Angela's Ashes Analysis

he memoir of Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes starts before Frank is born the reader knows he had help of some kind composing the beginning. Frank may have traveled back to Ireland when he began writing or consulted his mother before she passed and before he began to write. McCourt never explicitly says how he gathered his knowledge about before he was born and before he was of the age to remember things in detail. There are many possibilities as to how McCourt formed his memoir, whether it be his imagination, logical knowledge, or word of mouth; with the help of his editors he constructed a great piece of literary work. It is communal effort from McCourt’s imagination and his other sources to create Angela’s Ashes. The memoir starts before

The memoir is rich with dialogue from the characters and young Frankie himself, there is no possible way that McCourt can remember what his father said one time in one of the many mornings of his life. McCourt uses his personal knowledge of his family members to infer what they might say and how they might word it. McCourt incorporates his memories and knowledge to collaborate in his imagination to relay realistic dialogue of his youth. Though when writing any published pieces of literature there are editors and publishers who have a part in writing the memoir, McCourt would need the to see the eclipse of his writing. The editors and publishers might reproach the dialogue that McCourt has created and intertwine ideas to make it more reader appealing or a more readable structure. When Frank’s memories fall short they may come from pure imagination, for example if he remembered a friend's first name but not the last he may just make up a typical Irish last name to give credibility to the writing. Frank’s use of memory in the writing of his early years is very apparent, he remembers that his father Malachy would use the phrase “Och” often. In the first few chapters Malacky senior uses this phrase much more often than the rest of the memoir that Frankie may remember more clearly. Malachy senior leaves the family when Frankie is about 11, so the memories Frankie has of him maybe stronger and easier to write about because there are so few memories of him and memory is attached to