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Schools And Schools As Depicted In The Book Angela's Ashes

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This essay is about the ways schools, churches and hospitals are portrayed in the book "Angela 's Ashes." These institutions play a very important role in our day to day lives, so I will explain to you how they have been interpreted negatively in this novel by Frank McCourt. The 1930 's was a very hard time, especially if you were a catholic living in Ireland. You go to church, and are expected to act a certain way, following the strict rules of being a catholic. In this novel there is many moments when children sin, simply because they called their sibling a not-so-nice name, or took an extra piece of bread after dinner due to their hunger. As a result of that, the children must confess their sins to the priest, and then are punished . The Church is supposed to be a place of acceptance and forgiveness from God, yet in the book churches are given the impression that young naive children, doing harmless things will send them to hell. A young child doesn 't know any better, so to frighten them for the simple wrong thing they did, shouldn 't be the case but to teach them so they learn from their mistakes. As you may know religion was a major thing during this time. You either believed in Christianity or you didn 't. If you were a child of god then …show more content…

Then being left with a physical pain of rulers or belts whipped across the hand for not living up to their teachers expectations. This is not a way schools should 've punished innocent children, schools are supposed to be a place of learning, safety and being who you are gaining knowledge that will help you in the long run. The public schools in this novel show a very obedient unpleasant way of learning, to punish or expect such high standards from young children is ridiculous when they are only kids still in the process of understanding concepts right then

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