"Angela's Ashes": A Memoir

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This paper presents an analysis of the book "Angela's Ashes". It is the memoir of Frank McCourt, from his birth in Brooklyn through his impoverished childhood in Ireland. It examines the meaning behind the book's title, namely the woman whose name it bears, McCourt's mother, and the influence she had on his growth and development.

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"Angela's Ashes had hit the best seller's lists. With this fame to his credit McCourt makes it plain for us to see that the memoirs are larger than life because they depict life below poverty line in a manner never done before. None of the cynicism of the writers who had touched upon this subject is to be seen in this particular work. Perhaps because the writer himself had grown mature to look back on life humorously or a better reason could be that he owed some amount of the truth to his mother, who had engrained a set of values in his children despite difficult circumstances. Therefore nothing is blown out of proportion."

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