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Social Environment
Summary: Essay provides an analysis of the novel "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt.
In Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, McCourt has depicted life in a time span during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The social environment where Frank spent his childhood was in a miserable Irish society. Ireland an extremely patriotic and devout Irish catholic country in a time of great poverty dictates the fact those poor families will struggle though life. Therefore, the social environment of McCourt's life was a struggle for survivals as well as living a dream to provide for himself and his family.
Frank grows up in Limerick, a place of poor and lack of money. This meant families starved and fought for food and resources from Church organizations like St Vincent de Paul society. The McCourt's receive a weekly dole "enough for them to starve on." The detailed visuals Frank describes, "we hear families emptying out their chamber pots in our lavatory shared by twelve families...
This section contains 874 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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