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Summary: A wonderful book about being Irish, poor and Catholic.
Review: This is an amazing book as is his second book ('Tis) which follows this one. Frank Mc Court is a powerful writer. I cried, I laughed, I smiled.
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Summary: A miserable Irish Catholic childhood
Review: This is a story of how Francis McCourt lived and survived through the bleakness of his childhood, with a drunkard for a father. Although the beginning of the book is very depressing, with the death of Frank's baby sister, followed by the deaths of his younger twin brothers, many parts of the books still have numerous funny recounts. I found myself smiling and even laughing throughout the book!The memoir is written from the view of Frank McCourt as a child. It is a wonder that the kid has not gone into depression in such a harsh environment. He even had dreams of going to America and earning big bucks, which many had tried to convince him to forget. Despite this, Frank is still one determined person to succeed. The only thing that I dislike about the book is the lack of proper punctuation and sometimes spelling. In whole, the book is still readable and understandable. As this a such a superb book, this lacking can be easily overlooked once the reader is into the book. A book for all! (Except those who could not bear bleakness and discrimmation of any sort)
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Summary: Triumph Over Great Tragedy
Review: Angela's Ashes is definitely a story of a young boy who overcame many obstacles and misfortunes to fulfill his plan of making it to America. Young Frank McCourt tells his story of his Irish catholic Childhood from his early years to age nineteen. The book focuses on many issues in McCourt's life. For instance, he makes many references about the church, his inhumane poverty, Irish stereotypes, and Irish folklore. Each piece not only represents Ireland, but also effects the decisions in McCourt's childhood. The story almost immediately begins to seem depressing and sad. But, Frankie's knack for telling stories is definitely highlighted in his book Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt gives great detail to his story which makes for some pretty sad times. His life is one with discomfort, constant hunger, an absent father and an adulterous mother who sleeps with a man to house her children. But, the story is not a tragedy, for the protagonist, Frankie, achieves his desire in the end. What makes the story a success is McCourt's progression into young adulthood. People and teens alike enjoy it because it seems more of a coming of age and a drama. I personally enjoyed it for this reason. Angela's Ashes is a wonderful, yet sad story. Readers enjoy McCourt's style of first person narration, as well as learning about the Irish traditions. Four Stars for asngela's Ashes and a thumbs up for Mr McCourt.
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Summary: Inspiring
Review: What can be said about this great novel that hasn't been said already? Angela McCourt, a remarkable woman who lived a life few of us can even begin to imagine, and survived. She should serve as an inspiration to all no matter how dark and bleak the present and future present themselves. What was it that ran through her mind as she sat by the stove, smoking, drinking her tea, and staring at the ashes? Frank McCourt has written the most beautiful eulogy a son could ever write of his mother.
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Summary: :o)
Review: Angela's Ashes is a very powerful and great book. It is hard in the beginning because it just seems hopeless and so depressing, and yet at the same time, you can't put it down. As it progresses u slowly become slightly numbed to this depression because you come to accept it is there way of life at the time and can find some of their experiences now comical. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it .
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Summary: A Tragety Being Replayed Again
Review: The book Angela's Ashes includes love, hate, death, and poverty to such great extent that the book is a tragedy. This tragedy encompasses the childlike year of the author's life (Frank McCourt). Where he is born in New York, and later move to Ireland where their living is even worse than before. Frank goes through a life of poverty while living in an atmosphere where the death of loved one's is a regular occurrence. He watches his two brothers, sister, grandmother, and lover all die. At the same time Frank deals with a drunken father, who drinks away all of the family money while the rest of the family starve. This dysfunctional family nevertheless, doesn't it's best to stay alive and in the end makes it through just taking one day at a time. Frank although doesn't follow the trend of his father, instead he saves enough money to travel to America and start a new life.
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Summary: A Slice of Irish
Review: From the opening lines, McCourt gracefully foretells his miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Throughout the book he paints a portrait of the idiosyncratic and at times hypocritical Irish culture of the early forties. The reader can see the door being slammed in his face, him praying to St. Francis, and his desperation in licking the grease off the newspaper. In addition, McCourt does all this masterful storytelling in the mentality of an repressed Irish Catholic child. Although he may have exaggerated a few details, the author creates a poignant memoir that makes the reader feel that they are miserable and suffering along with the McCourt family.
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Summary: A Real Experice of Poverty
Review: I enjoyed reading this book because it was a good example of growing up. McCourt does a good job of using a child-like voice and then transitioning as his character approaches adolescence. Even though his story was depressing at times, he has a way of keeping interest up through his clever and at times, sarcastic style. I also like how he used food as a motif to represent what kind of poverty he was experiencing. While I was reading it, I felt the hunger that he was describing with great detail. Overall, this book was a real view on a normal person's experiences of growing up and living with poverty.
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Summary: Angela's Ashes, an Amazing Story of Hope Through Tragedy
Review: Growing up in Limerick, a poverty-stricken town in Ireland, was anything but easy for Frank McCourt. The book Angela's Ashes is an autobiographical assessment of the obstacles Frank went through as a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, strict family and religious values, and a never ending hunger for food and money. The value in this story is not through the tragedy but rather in the lessons taught through determination, hope, and love. This book is an inspiration to us all, proving anything is possible. It is well worth recognition and praise.
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Summary: A slow start
Review: I read this book for school. If I had read it on my own, I don't think I would have finished it. The beginning was a little to slow for me, and it also took a while for me to understand the narative of it. It is not written normally with quotes, ect, it is written in free verse, unlike anything else I have read. Once Frank becomes older, he starts to lead an interesting life, where he is woken up to all of socitys wrongs. Personally I think this almost always interesting. From that point on, I enjoyed it. Overall, if I knew the entire plot, I would read it, but if it was as borring as the first 75 pages, I would not have.
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