Angela's Ashes 3

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…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.