Povery in Angela's Ashes

Poverty is a major part in the book Angela's Ashes. The family is living in Ireland and their whole life depends on money and jobs to survive. Frank McCount describes the living conditions and economy throughout the book. This is a video shows the poverty and living conditions the family describes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhtNOkB07I. It was a documentary posted on Youtube by a man named David who says he supplies videos and documentaries specifically for school subjects.

I think this video would be helpful because it gives the potential reader a visual of the scene the characters describe as their living conditions and gives a background of the time period. I would want the reader to really remember what the flats and houses looked like and how the family describes their life in the cramped, unclean homes. I agree with the ideas in this video because it shows you around the average poverty class homes and shows a real example of the family that lives just like the family in the book.

There is also a written piece that is from a government website called "Information on the Irish State". This page was written by Diarmaid Ferriter and tells all about Ireland in the Twentieth century http://www.gov.ie/en/essays/twentieth.html. This tells a little more information than one would need for just reading the book. About the sixth paragraph is where it really starts to explain what happened in Ireland with the economy and the overcrowding.

I think this will be helpful to the reader because the family in Angela's Ashes struggle with getting a job and finding a place where they can all live comfortably. Getting the background information would help give more of a political and ecomonical base of what is happening in the book. The reader should think about how this would effect your life if you had to live in these conditions and also how would you survive. I agree with the article on how it explains how there was a high level of poverty and the overcrowded conditions of the cities. I think any information about poverty would help the reader understand the book a little better.