A description and veiw of Angela's Ashes

When reading Angela's Ashes you have to think about and get a sense of living in poverty and growing up in Ireland during World War two.

Frank and his family deal with a number amount of problems, they go through the struggles of sickness in their family, they go through hunger because of no money, Malachy "the Dad," has a strong problem with alcohol and spending any amount of money on it, and also dealing with poor living arrangements. Every body in this book is also very strict, the people of Ireland are against the English and have different views towards them, but in some cases the Irish men have to help the English in the War. Poverty is a problem in this book and there's situations that are hard for the family.

This website has a general detail of how the 1940's were and along with the living style, the feud between the Irish and the English, the illnesses, and working places. This website gives a idea or a notion of what was going on during that time and the things that took place.

This video is smiler to the book because in the book the family lives in small places with a number of people, also in the book there's a lot of parts that talk about making a fire for warmth. This video can kind of give you an Idea of how the living arrangements were and the life style.