Abu Angela: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by Irish-American writer Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and childhood stories. It details his childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. This also includes his struggle with his father's poverty and alcoholism.
The book was published in 1996 and won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A sequel, 'Tis , was published in 1999, followed by Guru Man in 2005.
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Sinopsis
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 19, 1930, Frank (Francis) McCourt was the eldest son of Malachy McCourt and Angela Sheehan McCourt. Both his parents immigrated from Ireland and married in a rifle marriage during Angela's pregnancy with Frankie. Angela comes from Limerick, Ireland, and likes music, singing, and dancing. Malachy is from Northern Ireland, known for his "weird way," known for telling fantastic stories about Irish heroes, and an alcoholic. Frankie is often said to be similar to his father, has a dog face hangs and the same "weird way." The narrative is told from the perspective of Frankie as a child.
In America, McCourt lives in a modern tenement house next to a park and shares floors, and a shared toilet, with other immigrant families from Ireland, Italy, and the Jewish community.
Frankie has four younger siblings: Malachy, born in 1931, whom Frankie often likes to be an open and attractive child; Oliver and Eugene's blond twins, born in 1932; and a sister, Margaret, in 1935.
Families often struggle with poverty because Malachy Sr. engaging in an endless struggle to find work and alcohol. The prospect of the family, and Angela's passion, increased every time she found a new job and brought her first-week wage home, but eventually found herself spending all her salary in the pub, although many of Angela's schemes prevented her from doing it, and lost her life. work after a few weeks.
Birth of Margaret seems to instill a new life into the family: the whole family is in love with her, Malachy Sr, the most important. He gave up drinking and found a steady job to support the family. However, due to his parents' ignorance of childhood illness, Margaret only lived for seven weeks. With his death, Malachy Sr left his family for days to enjoy an alcohol party, while Angela fell into a severe and debilitating depression. Frank, age six, was forced to feed and care for his siblings, often with good intervention from neighbors. The neighbors soon realize family difficulties and intervene, contacting Angela's brother, who in turn recommends the family return to Ireland with Angela's family in Limerick.
Angela was pregnant with a new baby, Michael (born 1936), when they returned to Ireland from America, and Frank's new brother was born in Limerick.
The Great Depression has struck Ireland, especially Limerick, even harder than in the United States. There is little work, and the conditions for poor families are sad. Malachy Sr. finds it even more difficult to find a job because of Northern Ireland's accents and behavior, the children are ridiculed for their American accent, and many neighbors, as well as the Angela family, look down on McCourts for their return from America.
Families are forced to rely on the charity and charity of the local Community of Saint Vincent de Paul, which requires a vast and embarrassing application process. Angela and Malachy Sr often argue about this because Malachy drinks the welfare money intended to feed the family, and sees Angela asking for charity as begging and degrading. For years, the family lived more than bread and tea.
Within a year of the arrival of the family, Oliver and Eugene also died - Oliver of what was implied to be dengue and Eugene, a few months later, from grieving at the loss of his twin and malnutrition. After every death, Angela sinks into depression, and the family moves because she can not stand being in the same house. Each step resulted in McCourts sliding into worse and worse circumstances. Finally, they end up living in a shabby house. The whole ground floor floods for half a year, requires families to stay in the upper room together, and their house is next to the only toilet on the entire street. There is constant traffic to families throwing pots of rooms in the dirty toilets, which are often backwards and smelly. The additional male brother, Alphie (Alphonsus, b 1940), was born in Limerick.
Frankie grew up in Limerick as a sensitive and intelligent child. He often makes unique observations of the people around him and has an emotional need to help. Her cherished Catholic understanding of her imaginative nature and the thought of whether she would go to hell would plague her mind. Frankie had to balance his Catholic belief against the church that often rejected him because of poverty and his family, his Irish education against his desire to return to America as he grew, and his desire for his father's attention to his loyalty to his mother. Foreigners often prefer their more interesting and outgoing siblings, but Frankie wins over several champions, especially in the form of her schoolteacher and the various adults who hire her for a side job.
Frank developed typhoid fever and was taken to a Catholic hospital, where for the first time he had enough food, warmth, and access to books without borders, and the time to read it, gave birth to his love of literature. Frankie also had chronic conjunctivitis, which did little to improve her appearance or perception, her sarcastic attitude.
At the outbreak of World War II, many Limerick men found work at a defense factory in Coventry, England, leaving their families behind and sending back money to support them. This well-paid job raised many of McCourts' neighbors out of poverty. Malachy Sr leaves the family and secures defense work. For several weeks, payments allow families to enjoy small luxuries like candy and visits to the cinema. But soon, the money stopped coming and Malachy Sr left his family for good.
Frank and his brothers began to scavenge for roads looking for coal or peat for fuel. They also stole leftovers from the restaurant at the end of the day and delivery of groceries from the front of the house.
Eventually, the family was evicted and homeless. With several options, Angela and her children moved in with her cousin, Griffin's Page. Page is a small tyrant who hates the presence of children and likes to humiliate them and Angela. A preteen, Frankie, hates this treatment, but does it for her mother and younger brother. Upon discovering that part of the Laman deal for providing housing was a sexual relationship with Angela, Frankie fought with Laman and was thrown out of the house. Shortly after, Malachy Jr. left Griffin's Page to join the military as a trumpet boy.
Frankie moved with his mother's uncle, who was dropped on his head as a child and now lives in the house he left behind by his deceased mother. Frank got a job as a telegram kid on his 14th birthday and started supporting himself while saving for a trip to America. The folks and interesting situations that Frankie met in her delivery caused her to grow as a person.
Frankie supported his youngest brother by providing food and rest from Griffin's Page when they came to visit him. Finally, his siblings asked if they could move with him, which he allowed, and they were soon followed by Angela. Frankie now has to give up most of her salary to her mother as a family bread winner, though she still takes on various odd jobs to get extra for her ticket to America, like writing a threatening letters on behalf of a local lender.
On his sixteenth birthday, Frank's uncle took him to the pub to buy him his first beer. Frank was drunk and back home, singing like his father used to be. When his mother embarrassed him for drinking like his father, Frank hit him, accused him of being a prostitute for Griffin's Page, and immediately felt ashamed of himself.
One day Frank returns to the home of the lender to find him dead. Liberated, Frank takes the money from his wallet and throws his debt book into the river to free their debt environment. The moneylender's contents gave him enough money to return to America at the age of nineteen. Frank arrived in Poughkeepsie, New York, ready to start a new life in his native country.
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List of characters
The McCourt Family
- Francis McCourt: The author of the book and the main character. Frank is a religious, resolute and intelligent Irish American who struggles to find happiness and success in a harsh community.
- Malachy McCourt: Frank's dad and an alcoholic. Although his addiction almost destroyed the family, Mr. McCourt managed to get his children's affections by telling Irish stories
- Angela McCourt, n Sheehan: Frank's hard-working mother who puts her family first and holds high expectations for her children. He is also funny and funny
- Malachy (Jr.): Frank's younger brother and should be more charming and charming
- Oliver: Frank's brother, twin to Eugene, who died at an early age in Ireland
- Eugene: Frank's brother, who died of pneumonia six months after Oliver, his twin brother
- Margaret: Frank's only sister, who died while she slept in the United States
- Michael: Frank's sister
- Alfonsus: Frank's youngest brother
- Aunt Aggie: Aunt without Frank's child. She does not approve of Angela's husband or how Angela raises and cares for her children, but remains helpful and loyal.
- Uncle Pa Keating: Aunt Aggie's husband, who really likes Eugene
- Uncle Pat Sheehan: Sister Angela, who dropped on her head when she was young
- Grandma: Mother Angela and Frank's grandmother, who sends Angela's money to come to Ireland
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- Paddy Clohessy: a poor kid in the same class as Frank, who considers Frank's friend after Frank shares with him a very coveted raisin
- Brandon "Question" Quigley: another Frank classmate, who often gets into trouble because of his tendency to ask too many questions
- Fintan Slattery: Frank's classmate who invites Frank and Paddy for lunch and starts eating everything in front of them without offering them
- Mikey Molloy: The son of Nora Molloy, who is older than Frank, has a match, and "an expert on the Body of Girls and Ugly Things"
- Patricia Madigan: A patient at Fever Hospital who befriends Frank and tells him some poems, especially "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, but dies before he can tell the rest of the poem
- Seamus: The hospital cleaning staff who helped Frank and Patricia communicate, and who later read a poem to Frank at the eye hospital
- Sir. Timoney: An old man who paid Frank to read books to him
- Dotty O'Neill: a rather eccentric 4th grade Frank who loves Euclid
- Sir. O'Dea: grade 5 teacher and Frank's principal
- Theresa Carmody: A 17-year-old consumptive girl with whom Frank has sexual relations. Frank is very worried about the fate of Theresa's soul, which he thinks is dangerous by having premarital sex with her
- Mickey Spellacy: A Frank friend who, anticipating the death of his sister, promises Frank he can come to wake up and eat some food
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After traveling to America (where the book ended), Frank eventually worked at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City, where he lived until 1951. Frank was recruited during the Korean war to be stationed in Bavaria, Germany. After his release, Frank returned to New York and tried several different jobs until he was accepted at NYU. After graduating in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in English, McCourt turned to teach at New York schools. He then obtained his master's degree and went to Dublin to pursue a PhD, which he never completed.
Awards
Angela's Ashes won several awards, including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the National Kritics Circle Award 1996 (Biography), and the 1997 Boeke Prize.
He was elected Irish American of the Year in 1998.
Criticism
McCourt is accused of greatly exaggerating his family raised by many of Limerick's original inhabitants, including Richard Harris. McCourt's own mother had denied the accuracy of his story shortly before his death in 1981, shouting from the audience during stage performances and the memories of his brother Malachy that it was "all bundles of lies."
Movies
In 1999 a movie version was released. It was co-written and directed by Alan Parker starring Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge, as young, Medium and Older Frank McCourt respectively and Emily Watson as McCourt Angela's mother.
The film begins when the McCourt family moves back to Ireland after experiencing difficulties in America. Many of Street's scenes were filmed in Cork, Ireland. The movie soundtrack was composed and performed by John Williams, and featured songs by Billie Holiday and SinÃÆ'Â ad ad O'Connor.
Musical
A musical stage written by Paul Hurt, with music and lyrics by Adam Howell based on a book premiered at the Lime Tree Theater, Limerick on July 6, 2017.
See also
- Upset turned on
- Wild Swans
References
Further reading
- Hagan, Edward A. "Really Cat Alley? Abu Angela and Critical Orthodox", New Hibernia Review /Iris ÃÆ' â € ° ireannach Nua 4: 4 (Winter 2000): 39-52.
- Lenz, Peter. "To Hell or to America?": Tragicomedy at Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Irish Tradition Tradition, Anglia: Zeitschrift fÃÆ'¼r Englische Philologie 118: 3 (2000): 411 -20.
- McCourt, Frank. Tis: A Memoir , Scribner (August 2000)
External links
- Frank McCourt discusses Angela's Ashes on the BBC World Book Club
- Cullen, Kevin. "Memoir Lashed, and Loved: Abu Angela Author Finds Enemy, Friends in the Bottoms", Limerick Globe October 29, 1997
- Younger Brother Final Writer Recalling the Childhood Poverty Described at Abu Angela - video report by Democracy Now!
- [Angela's Ashter Introduction ] at Limerick Leader: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- Notes book interview with McCourt on Angela's Ashes <31, 1997
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