Trinity, tri meaning three and uni meaning one. Frank Mccourt uses the term “Holy trinity” to describe his father because he has three sides to him. Everyone has different sides to them and we all take hardship in their own ways. We all turn to something when we are in a crisis in our life to make us feel that we can survive. For Malachy Frank Mccourt’s father it was alcohol and that was one out of the three side of him. It’s extremely hard to see the good in people when the bad consumes them but Frank peaks through that and still sees the good that his father does. Malachy wasn’t in Frank's life a whole lot but even then he has burned a hole in his life and deserves to take pride and ownership of his son regardless of the decisions he has made. …show more content…
All throughout the book trauma after trauma occurs and you really see the escalation of his drinking because he spends every dime he makes at the pub, leaving the rest of his family to fend for themselves. Malachy may have a serious issue with alcoholism but he does take care of his family the best way he can. “It looks like he's going to kiss the baby. Instead he has his mouth on the little nose and he's sucking sucking the bad stuff out of Michael's head” even though Malachy has his own issues that he deals with, he isn’t afraid to put his kids first when they need