...Imagine having to run through the streets to keep warm in the February frost, while trying to get food for your mother who is sick above the bed, and your brothers are starving waiting for you to come back with bread. That is a prime example of poverty shown in one of these two stories. In "Angela's Ashes" by author Frank McCourt, poverty and perseverance is shown when he tries to find food for his family. Similarly, in "The Street", author Ann Petry describes poverty when looking for a place to live through a storm. In both Anglela's Ashes and The Street, the authors use characters, events, and setting to show the theme of overcoming struggles when dealing with poverty. In Angela's Ashes, it develops the theme of overcoming poverty by using...
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...Gary is sacrificing his well being for his wife and children. An extensive proportion of families endure these conditions on a daily basis and can relate to Gary. The stories The Street and Angela’s Ashes show the sacrifice people make for others through the use of characters, events, and setting. Angela’s Ashes shows personal sacrifice through the use of characters, events, and setting. Frank McCourt is altruistic and charitable to his family. After satisfying the need of his family members, Frank McCourt lies down, thinking of jam and how lovely it would be to have some with bread (McCourt 7). This situation proves that Frank McCourt sacrifices for his family. Additionally, we know that McCourt is selfless. “In a second I have two bottles of lemonade up under my jersey and I saunter away trying to look innocent...
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...Imagine a young irishmen tired of the rain and dark clouds of Ireland; Frank finds his way to new mexico in hopes of a brighter, drier future. But he falls ill; unable to work he’s forced out into the street. With his hope depleting like his health, he’s has given up, ready to welcome god. When a hispanic boy about the same age as him offers his help. Tony calls himself a curandero, able to heal through the will of Ultima. Would you think that these two boys would have anything in common? In Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Frank McCourt is a young boy being raised in Ireland during the depression.Growing up Frank faces many struggles between poverty, religion and prejudice because of his northern heritage. He endures it all in hopes of one day making it back to America to give his family a better life. In Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio Marez is a young hispanic boy learning about his family, religion and life under the wings of a strong curandera named Ultima. Although there are some obvious...
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...In the two given sources, a theme is depicted in the stories called Angela's Ashes by the famous author Frank McCourt and The Street by Ann Petry. It is clearly portrayed throughout both stories that the theme is daily-life struggle. In Angela's Ashes, the author describes the setting and feelings of characters of being ravenous, dying of terrible starvation, and desperate for food. As well as in The Street, the author describes the characters of struggling through their daily life, with lack of food and supplies to last them through the day. To begin with, the author, Frank McCourt begins by introducing the characters in the story and their daily struggles. He emphasizes on the family members and what they do for a living. The children's father works in the North in an...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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...Longman English Grammar L G.Alexander Consultant- R A. Close, CBE Pearson Education Limited, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world www longman com © Longman Group UK Limited 1988 All rights reserved, no part of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers Distributed in the United States of America by Longman publishing, New York First published 1988 Twentieth impression 2003 BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Alexander L G Longman English Grammar 1 English language - Text-books for foreign speakers 1 Title 428 2'4 PE1128 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Alexander, L G Longman English Grammar/L G Alexander, consultant, R A Close p cm Includes index ISBN 0-582-55892-1 1 English language - Grammar - 1950- 2 English language Text-books for foreign speakers 1 Close, R A II Title PE1112A43 1988 428 2'4-dc19 87-22519 CIP Set in 8 on 9 1/2pt Linotron 202 Helvetica Printed in China SWTC/20 Louis Alexander was born in London in 1932 He was educated at Godalming Grammar School and London University He taught English in Germany (1954-56) and Greece (1956-65), where he was Head of the English Department of the Protypon Lykeion, Athens He was adviser to the Deutscher Volkshochschulverband...
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