This assignment is not only to look at the events of the story, but also study the culture background of the book. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes happened to a book that strongly point out a country's unique traditions---Ireland, a poor country with anti-English sentiment. The Irishiness is clearly presented in the novel. The author uses several skills to give the sentences the Irish feeling such as in the language that the people speak and in …
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…are places where he uses another spelling to extinguish between English English and Irish English. For example, in page 58, "will ye mind yeerselves, will ye?" and "I'm from Cork Meself," on page 54. Suppose we will use possessive pronoun "my", the author uses "me"; "What good is that to me with me new dress?" Those wordings are hard to understand, but since Frank grow up in this place, it's not awkward that the book speaks true.