"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the memoir "Angela's Ashes" of author Frank McCourt which is about the circumstances he had experienced. He had to deal with the deaths in his family, his way of living, his family's poverty and his father's alcoholism. In this novel are many things which bring the feeling of sadness to the reader's mind. Born in Brooklyn as an irish immigrant and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he spend all his money on drinks. Frank had to deal with the deaths in his family, his way of living, his family's poverty and his father's alcoholism. In this novel are many things which bring the feeling of sadness to the reader's mind. There were many changes in his life: in the beginning there are six family members. Then Margaret was born. Margaret is the only girl with her brothers Frank, Malachy, Oliver and Eugene ( the twins). But suddenly Margaret gets sick and dies unexpectedly and early. Next the twins die in cause of an illness. There are a total of 3 deaths in the first chapter of the novel, so you can see how these deaths bring suffering to the family. This seems to me like a kind of change & movement, because there was a change in there family. After Margaret dies Malachy and Angela decide to move back to Ireland to live a better life but it became quite different and they lead a worse life. Another aspect of movement was that Frank's dream was to move back to America. Frank lives for his father's stories of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.