Angelas Ashes

1
Angelas Ashes

• Notes
• Pages 23-46

2
Singing

• Angela
• Sings when she is happy
• Songs are romantic
• Page 23

3
Singing

• Malachy
• Sings when he is drunk
• Songs are sad and about Ireland (revolutionary)
• Page 24
• Page 25

4
Pride

• Factory
• Angela takes the kids to Malachys place of
  employment.
• Tries to get Malachys earnings before he gets
  them and spends all of it on alcohol

5
Pride

• Bar
• Angela sends Frank into the bars to find his
  father.
• Men laugh at him

6
Margaret

• Characterized as a perfect baby
• Minnie says there was a holiday in heaven the
  day this child was made. Mrs. Leibowitz says the
  world never saw such eyes, such a smile, such
  happiness. She makes me dance, says Mrs.
  Leibowitz. (29-30)

7
Influence of Margaret on Malachy

• Sings to her
• Page 30

8
Influence of Margaret on Malachy

• Showers all of his attention on her
• He walks around the kitchen with her and talks
  to her. He tells her how lovely she is with her
  curly black hair and the blue eyes of her mother.
  He tells her hell take her to Ireland and
  theyll walk the Glens of Antrim and swim in
  Lough Neagh. Hell get a job soon, so he will,
  and shell have dresses of silk and shoes with
  silver buckles. (30)

9
Influence of Margaret on Malachy

• Stopped Drinking
• Mam tells Minnie MacAdorey, Hes in heaven over
  that child. He hasnt touched a drop since she
  was born. I shouldve had a little girl a long
  time ago. (30)

10
Influence of Margaret on Malachy

• Has Completely Changed
• Minnie says its lovely, all the same, to see a
  man so charmed with his little girl for isnt
  everyone charmed with her? (31)

11
Margarets Death

• Reread pages 35-41

12
Influence of Margarets Death

• Angela
• Completely shut down
• Cannot get out of bed
• Malachy
• Cries
• Begins to drink again
• Kids
• Innocent reaction to the tragedy

13
Frank and the Playground

• The fight with Freddie Leibowitz
• Frank fights Freddie because Frank does not want
  to share the Cuchulain story.
• Frank loses all control
• Things turn black and he cannot stop.
• Freddie thinks Frank is going to kill him.

14
Frank and the Playground

• The Bananas
• Frank steals bananas from the Italian grocer
  because the twins are starving.
• moral and ethical issues?
• The Italian grocers reaction (pages 32-33)
• kindness of strangers
• gives a bag of fruit for the kids
• the grocer is aware that Frank stole from him

15
Back to Ireland

• Angelas cousins write to Angelas mother
• Request that she sends money to bring the family
  back to Ireland
• Boat Ride to Ireland
• Angela is pregnant again