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    The novel, Angela’s Ashes took place in the 1930s in Limerick, Ireland, and details Frank McCourt’s very early childhood. The author, Frank McCourt depicts his first-hand account of his family as a dysfunctional family that grapples with poverty during a time of war. During Frank’s childhood, his father, Malachy Sr. failed to stabilize a safe and healthy environment because of his alcoholism. Because of this, Frank had to take on the role of his father in order to conquer the challenges he was

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    Moreover, their achievements are more remarkable than those whose childhood were happy; they were marked by adversity and their drive to overcome and exceed expectations. A good life was not handed to them, but rather earned. Frank McCourt in Angela 's Ashes described the hard times and pain in his life, pain that no person should have had to endure. After losing his baby sister Margaret and twin brothers Eugene and Oliver, to disease and bad parenting, McCourt went

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