Second Response Angelas Ashes

Well on the good side no more kids have died and no more will die for the rest of the story. The boys are finishing up school and looking for work. Frank is now 19 and has a job working for the coal yard. His father moved to England to make money but continues to drink it away at the pubs. His brother Malachy goes away for schooloing at the age of 15 for a year and Michael is still growing older. With the money Frank is making he slowly starts to save it up. Soon after he started saving he reached the amount of money he needed. This money was then put to buying a ticket. A ticket back to America.

This story ended really well compared to what all happened at the beginning of his life. Frank is able to put his head on straight and not end up like his dad. I'm just glad that the family was able to move on without the help of the father and actually ended up  doing better without him.

Angelas Ashes Response One

Angelas Ashes is a story of a young boy who was born in America to two Irish parents. They don't have a lot of money and all of his siblings keep dying. The family moves to Ireland where it is is totally different than America. Religion is huge and schooling is little to none. Diseases cover the streets and it rains every single day. The mother, Angela, has had it rough because she has had six kids over the last nine years and she only has two left. However, there is a third child that she found on the steps to her house one night.

I couldn't imagine having to go through that type of a childhood where a sibling of yours dies every two years from disease. This book is not very fast based and goes deep into the religion aspect of his life but it picks up every now and then. the only bad part is that when it picks up is when someone in the family dies.