angelas ashes

Angelas Ashes

Angelas Ashes is an exciting book to read. With every turn of a page something new is happening. The setting of the novel is very important and influences many of the events. The main characters are very different and unique in there own ways. The novel is rather simple to read and not too hard to understand.

Angelas Ashes is set in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. It takes place only years after Ireland had gained its independence from Britain in 1921 (except Northern Ireland) (339 Gordon). Therefore in the book they blame a lot of their problems on the British and what they did to them for so long. Many of their houses were old and dilapidated. Many of the poor children wore raggy clothing but there were also some well to do families, whose children dressed nicely. Some of the men had habits of spending their dole money before in the local pubs instead of taking it home to their families. When they talk they use a lot of slurred or slang words which we do a l...