Family Struggles In Angela's Ashes By Frank Mccourt

Frank McCourt’s memoir, Angela’s Ashes, reflects on the struggles and poverty stricken life he and his family faced in Limerick, Ireland. I have also felt the struggles of living in poverty, but not as harsh as Frank and his family experienced. Family issues and hardships can sometimes leave a positive or negative effect on rising adults within their lifetime, causing detrimental and lifetime damage.

During the year of 2007, my family and I faced the hardest moments of our life. We just moved from Virginia to a small town apartment in Kingstree, South Carolina, with barley any money or income to start our new lives. My father had failed to find a supportive job for the family, leaving my mother to work two jobs with very low pay. My twin

This memoir influenced my personal memoir due to resemblance in family struggles, parenthood, childhood, and the effects of being an outcast. Similar to my memoir, McCourt 's family moves from America to Ireland, leaving the more upper class country to a more deficit country. He and his family have to depend more on family members and it caused and uneasy sense of confusion amongst the family as "Aunt Aggie complained when Grandma told her Mam would have to sleep with her that night" (McCourt 58). McCourt 's memoir also influenced my memoir due to the way Frank was treated by multiple people. Just as I was bullied by other kids, Frank was also bullied and called names such as a "stupid Yank" or a "little hooligan" (McCourt 79). As a child Frank became highly sick with typhoid fever and conjunctivitis, causing anything in sight to be "brown and blurry" (McCourt 227). This part of the memoir reflects the time I became sick with a virus. Since Frank always was thought of as an outcast he took interest in delivering coal thinking this job would make others become more fond of him. This job made Frank feel more confident of himself and "feel like a man , a man with a shilling in his pocket...not a child anymore" (McCourt 261). This corresponds with when I decided to join dance and flag line to make friends, and make myself look less of an outcast to others. McCourt 's memoir also influenced my memoir due to the type of parenthood his mother and father displayed. Similar to my father, Frank 's father was much of a drunken disgrace to the family and was always resented much. The drunken father was not to be spoken to and that you could "make anyone suffer by not talking to him" (McCourt 171). Although his family was poor and he fought many battles within his life, Frank was able to move back to America and make a better living for himself, just as me and