Who Is Angela's Ashes By Frank Mccourt?

Most readers prefer a story that will make them laugh rather than making them cry. Angela’s Ashes, a memoir written by Frank McCourt, recounts the life of Frank McCourt in its glory and its tragedy by beginning with his calamitous childhood and concluding with his auspicious adulthood. McCourt matched his narration to his character’s age during Angela’s Ashes by utilizing simple diction, various syntactical structures, and fictive detail to portray his life in an optimistic way. Initially, McCourt expressed the age of the narrator by matching the diction to his character’s age. When McCourt described his younger years, he incorporated childish word choice: “But Mikey’s father, champion of all pint drinkers, is like my uncle Pa Keating, he

He has thick ginger eyebrows that meet in the middle and hang over his eyes and his arms hang down to his kneecaps” (McCourt 147). The details describing Declan Collopy are humorous because they are hyperbolized. They exaggerate a few of his features in a comical way to make the text more entertaining. Descriptions that McCourt uses in the latter part of the book become more straight-forward. He focuses on more adult topics and provides less vivid details: “In the springtime there’s a new messenger boy and I’m back in the office” (McCourt 353). It is evident that the narrator has aged by the way he now focuses on the story instead of going off into tangents that describe minor details. Overall, the word choice, sentence structure, and information presented by Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes match the age of McCourt’s character to the narrator. By doing so, the memoir takes the reader through Frank McCourt’s mind as he is growing up, but the style of the author recounts the disheartening details of his miserable childhood in a more amusing way to create an enjoyable and humorous