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In saintas Ashes, the author weenie McCourt gives his whole self in the regulateing of this story. It is his lifes journey- the hardship, horrors, pain and suffering that he endures.Set in 1936, Angelas Ashes follows the difficult lives of Angela McCourt, her husband, Malachy and their children. The oldest child of the family Frank McCourt was born into the worst resistant of poverty in Brooklyn, New York. Frank and his family wore nothing more than rags and the little food they had came from the charity of kind people. His mother, Angela didnt work and his mother always drank his paycheck away. Even with out steady income to support one child, the McCourt family kept on growing extending to Malachy, Margaret, the twins- Eugene and Oliver, and eventually Michael and Alphonsus. Thus, beginning at a young age, Frank had the function of tending to his brothers and sisters while his mother was desperately trying to find food to feed the family, and his father was getting drunk in t he bars. Although Franks father was not around for most of Franks life, Malachy did nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he could provide a story. passim Angelas Ashes Frank lives for his fathers tales of Cuchulain and The Angel on the Seventh Step, Franks very own angel who also brings his mother babies.Would the Angel on the Seventh Step tell you what to do, ifyou didnt know what to do?He would son, he would. Thats the job of an angel. Even the one of the Seventh Step.I know hes there because the seventh step feels warmerThan the other steps(Pg.125)After the death of Margaret, the McCourts move to Ireland where the situation only worsened. Franks father continued to drink the money away and most nights the family was left to starve.I want ye to stand in the middle of the pub and tell everyman your father is drinking away the moneyfor the baby. Ye are to tell the world there isnt a scrap of foodin this house, not a lump of coal to start the fire,not a drop of milk for th e babys bottle.(Pg.183-184)Life for the McCourts was testing and difficult. The children wore rags for diapers, Malachy and Frank wore disunite shoes in the winter, and Angela was forced to gather scraps of coal and paper from the roadside just to light a fire.