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Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes is the life experience of a Catholic Irish boy, born in New York, to Irish immigrant parents, during the United States’ worse economic period in history, the depression era. At the tender age of four years old, Frankie McCourt had the responsibility that many children beared at that time. He watched over his younger siblings; Malachy, three, the twins, Oliver and Eugene, almost one, and his only sister Margaret, …

…stealing food from the drunkards in the street, stealing food before grocers before they opened in the morning, or stealing money from a dead woman, then he was going to do it. As much as Frankie worked, took on the obligations of an adult, felt guilty for his sins, and experienced women, he was still a young boy at heart whose dream was to go to America and make something better of himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**