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kimberly5
kimberly5
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High School - 9th Grade

What is the conflict in "Angela's Ashes"?

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Posted by kimberly5 on Wednesday July 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM and tagged with conflict.

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  1. lhc
    lhc Teacher
    Middle School

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    The main ongoing conflict in Frank McCourt's novel Angela's Ashes is his mother's ongoing battle to keep her children from starving while her husband, McCourt's father, a semi-functional alcoholic, bounces from job to job and drinks away every cent of his paycheck on those rare occasions when he actually gets one.  McCourt frequently mentions drinking tea out of jelly jars, and eating bread as their only meals.  Angela had a sister and mother who refused to help her, because they disapproved of her husband, and she often went begging to charity organizations as her only means of survival.

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    Posted by lhc on Wednesday July 29, 2009 at 9:51 PM

  2. henock
    henock Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    The conflicts in Angelas's Ashes are:

     

    Life: Death (hunger, consumption, typhoid, diptera, conjuctivits…)

     

    Catholic: Protestant

     

     Irish    : English

     

    Youth: Age

     

    Limerick (Shannon): Antrim (Lough Neagh)

     

    Mom didn’t look out the window at Lough Neagh.p49

     

    We will get out of Limerick and far from the Shannon that kills.p102

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    Posted by henock on Saturday September 12, 2009 at 5:50 AM