Angela's Ashes' Audience

This book is a great book and I think it can appeal to any body, the book captures your attention and is very descriptive but not in a boring way. There's a lot of different emotion in this book, along with tragedies but also with a sence of humor and sarcacim, this book can apeal to anybody and the book will give a great description of how Frank McCourt's life was as a kid.
This book is at an ongoing pace so you have to be truly interested and understand whats going on as you read because you can miss something impotant or be lost about where the family stands.
To understand the book I think you really have to follow along with what Frank McCourt is descrbing and the emotion of the family, you have to follow the way he show's the emotions and actions of his Mom, Dad, brothers and sister, people who help them and all the places they go whether to live or surivive.
One thing I think would be interesting in discussing about the book is the alcoholic problem with Frank's Dad Malachy and the way it affects his family. Also another disscusion could involve what would you do if you were in Frank's position seeing all whats happening to your family.
This is a great book and you get a feel of how Frank McCourt's life goes about.

Should the book you’re reading be available for more people to read in Perspectives?

Angela's Ashes should be available for more people to read in Perspectives. The book would appeal to anyone who could understand it. Angela's Ashes is appealing because of the unusual hardships that Frank McCourt goes through with his family. These hardships, cause the reader to want to find out, how and if, the McCourts ever escape their troubles. The Irish vocabulary and the McCourts' move from America to Ireland are the two most confusing aspects of the book, they cause you lose your place. In the beginning of the book the McCourts are in the U.S then they move to Ireland, and Irish expressions like Och, are just like saying Oh, in English. There is some mature content, but it is only suggested, and because it is not the main focus of any part of the book, it isn't necessary for it to be brought up in a discussion.

Should Angela's Ashes be available for more people to read in Perspectives?

Angela's Ashes is a pretty good so far. It's definitely a sad book, it seems like it's tragedy after tragedy. He has 3 siblings that have died, and his father keeps drinking their money for food. So if you don't like sad books, this book is not for you. It is also a pretty difficult read, so if youre not one for reading alot, then it isnt for you either, but that's really the only "obstacle" that i can see getting in the way. In order to understand the book, it would help if you knew a little bit about the past of Ireland and America. Although it's really not a big deal if you don't, i just think that it would come in handy a little bit. There are times when some of the older characters talk about history of Ireland or America, and i am totally lost. I also think that that would be fun to learn about, and i think that other students might as well. There really isn't any "mature content" in the book, so that shouldn't be an issue.So far it is a pretty good book, and i like it much more than i liked This Boys Life. It would be a good book to read in perspectives, or any other high school language arts class.

Malachy's problem

Do you think that Malachy will stop his drinking problem by the end of the book?

Impressions and Expectations

I am not sure what I expect from this book. I have flipped through some pages and I found an old picture of the author at a European school, and for some reason I expect this book to be about a holocaust survivor. I don't remember much about the review that was given on the book. I choose this book because it was the book with a group that needed a person. However, I want to read the book, the cover page caught my attention, and 'Miss Congeniality' said it was going to be good so now I want to know it's about.

Overlook on Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes was a book I reviewed in class and it was interesting to hear about this kids's life and see what problems and situations he went through. I like sucsess stories and I would like to hear McCourt's sucsess story.
I've heard kid's who have alcoholic parents and in this book McCourt has a Father who is one. I want to see how McCourt deals with his Father and how his living style is, also what are his point of views. Usually you can learn from books like this and get an understanding of what the author is going through, another thing to look at is what the author feels through the book, it not only is a book but it was his life at one time. I think this book will be real good and interesting to find out somebody's story in their life.

My Expectations

My expectations for this book are that it will be a good book. I am hoping that it will be one of the books that when you start to read it you don't want to put it down, although i don't know if that is exactly what it will be like. A lot of times when i read a book for school it turns out to be extremely boring. Every time i hope that the book will be good so that i don't end up skipping out on reading it and looking up summary's online, but that rarely happens. Hopefully it will this time.
I have heard that it was a sad book. It's about a boy and his troubled life at home. This is the book that i skimmed through for class and the little bit that i read talked a lot about his father being an alcoholic. Hopefully it should be interesting. It is a pretty long book, one of the longer books that the class is reading so i hope that it is not boring and that i will be able to finish it in time.

Angela's Ashes Preview Report

I originally chose to read Lucky, by Aliss Sebold. Unfortunately my mother wouldn't let me read it. So i chose Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt. I Didn't know much about the book before i chose it, i just needed a new book to replace Lucky.
I did read the book's introduction though, and i am looking forward to reading Angela's Ashes, his story interests me because of the struggle he tell about in his life, and how he never gave up, no matter what happened. In the intro, it states that they never felt sorry for themselves because they never had time to, this interests me because i want to find out what hardships they went through to cause so much of there time and life being taken away.
I also want to find out what this "Irish voice" is that they are talking about, and how it's different than any other writing.

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