Angela

            Angela's Ashes, is a memoir of Frank McCourt's childhood. At age of four, Frank moved from New York, to Ireland where he would suffer from illness, poverty, death, a drunked father, and bullies for the rest of his childhood.
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             In New York, Frank had lived with his parents, Malachy McCourt and Angela Sheehan, who met each other shortly after arriving from Ireland. They had 4 other children together, Malachy jr, the twins Oliver and Eugene and Margaret who died when she was 7 weeks old. The death of Margaret drove Angela into a deep depression. Angela's only relatives in New York, the MacNamara sisters, took it upon themselves to do something about it and asked Angela's mother back in Ireland to send enough money to take Angela and her family back to Ireland. After being shipped around for a while in Ireland, the family eventually settled down in the city of Limerick. This is where Frank spent the rest of his childhood until the age of 19 when he saves up enough money to travel back out to America.
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             Frank loved his father, Malachy McCourt, but had mixed feelings about him because he was an alcoholic who could not take care of his family. There are times in the story where Frank shows his love for his father, like the time they would spend alone eating breaking in the morning and telling stories to one another, and when he was admitted to the Fever Hospital with typhoid fever and his father came to visit him, when his father was asked to leave he kissed Frank on the forehead for the first time in Frank's life and Frank says that this made him "so happy I feel like floating out of bed". On the other hand, Frank held a lot of resentment for his father because there were many times that Frank and his family would be left hungry when Frank's father decided to drink his wages. Frank would then be sent out to look in the pubs for his father but never found him, his father only returned early in the morning when the money had been spent.