Angela's Ashes By Frank Mccourt

Angela's Ashes is a memoir written in 1996 by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt . This novel tells the story of young Frank and his family's life when they travel from America to Ireland during the Great Depression and Frank's fight making it back to America and to have a better life than the one he and his family had in Ireland.Through the novel Frank and his family face many hardships such as the loss of many family members,Frank's father being an alcoholic and spending all their income on alcohol,and getting their house taken away and having to move in with their cousin. Despite the hardships in this novel ,McCourt’s use of style ,point of view,and literary devices shows his triumphed accomplishments in a less depressing tone.
For example ,when Frank pukes up the host his grandmother says that she “has God in herk backyard “(p.159) .McCourt takes a sad event like vomiting after his communion and lightens the mood with humor . In addition , his grandmother gets very upset with Frank for doing this and will not talk to him or his family . Angela, Frank's mother , tries to make him feel better by saying “ wash God away with a little water “(p159) .McCourt use this humor to ease the tension between Frank and his Grandma . Another example of humor being used in Angela's Ashes is when the whole downstairs of the house floods and they have to move upstairs . They call the upstairs “Italy “(p.118) and the downstairs “Ireland”(p.118).This is a use of humor because instead of being upset about the house being run down and the bottom half flooding they make the best of it and add this humor to make it more