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Angela's Ashes

            
            
             What are your feelings after reading the opening chapter(s) of this book? After reading half the book? After finishing the book? 2-3.
             2. What connections are there between the book and your life? .3.
             3. In what ways are you like any of the characters? Do any of the characters remind you of other people? Explain .3-4.
             4. What effect does the book have on your own beliefs? 4.
             5. What is the most important word in the book (or in a particular chapter or section)? The most important passage? The most important event? Explain . .5-6.
             Part 2 Points of Interest.
             6. What parts of this book are worth reading again and again? Why? .7-8.
             7. What parts (aspects, elements) detract from the book's overall effectiveness? .
             Why? 8.
             8. What patterns have you discovered in the text .
             (plot development, characterization)? .8-9.
             9. What surprised you about the book? Why? .
             10. What confuses you about the book or makes you wonder? .
             Part 1.
             1. After reading the opening chapter of Angela's Ashes, I felt that the book that the author had gone through a lot of things in his childhood, from moving to Ireland from New York. On the first page you can clearly see how life was a great hardship for himself and his family. " nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire-(McCourt 11). The first chapter discusses Angela, Frank McCourt's mother and who the book is based upon, and her life before she had children. When I read this part of the memoir, it became a reality of how life was for the poor coming to America, especially by themselves as Angela did.
             As I continued to read the memoir and as I came to the halfway point of the book, reality hit me even harder to see Frank's family struggle to simply get milk for his brothers and sister.


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