Angela's Ashes 3

Angela’s Ashes In Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes, the connection between tone, syntax, and point of view combine to create an effective balance of humor and pathos. This is shown through the perspective of little Frank McCourt. Sometimes it is human nature to try to make a tragedy seem better than it is in order to go on with our lives. Frank’s struggle to make his situation as a poor, Catholic, …

…to release the anguish of growing up like Frank McCourt did. Franks lived through the hardships of growing up a poor, Catholic, Irish boy in the times of the great depression, and he wants the reader not to feel so bad by adding a sense of humanity to the story. So he uses the powerful syntax, positive tone, and a childlike point of view to make the memoir a better but serious truth to it.