Frank McCourt was born on 19th August, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York at the height of the Great Depression. When he was abut four, his sister Margaret died. The family subsequently returned to Limerick, Ireland, and is the main focal setting of this book, Angela's Ashes, a memoir of his childhood. McCourt returned to New York when he was nineteen, and managed to become a teacher after studing at New York university. His brother Malachy came …showed first 75 words of 2694 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2694 total…make something of himself. This is probably the most obvious and inspiring message of Angela's Ashes. In Frank McCourt, we see an individual who looked at incredible harshness, learnt that he had to make some efforts himself to pull himself out of the mire of poverty, and did so. To his credit, he learns wisdom, and goes on to a brighter future, providing a pattern which we can all as readers in a sense, emulate.