How the Writer creates an impression of Setting and Place in Angelas Ashes.

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How the Writer creates an impression of Setting and Place in Angela’s Ashes.

Angela’s ashes, wrote by Frank McCourt, takes place in a city called Limerick in the republic of Ireland. The geographical setting and environment, together, play an extremely important role in the passage.  From the extract, we learn that the location depicts a sense of isolation, poverty and a underlying current of tension. 

This tension is carefully written through a series of descriptive words that builds throughout the passage, gradually worsening as we learn more about the location, and thus taking an effect on the characters and reflecting their personalities.

The family have moved from ‘’Harstonge Street’’  to ‘’Barrack Hill.’’ We do not learn too much about the circumstances of Harstonge Street, but we do learn that  due to the family losing members, which we know are ''the twins'', because when the characters venture into buying furniture, the narrators says ''we can use the pram we had for the twins and when she says that she cries.'' (Referring to the mother.) We also learn they have to move, otherwise  the mother will ‘’go out of her mind and wind up in the lunatic asylum.’’ 

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We are not made aware of whether moving has been a great deal of time,  but a contemporary detail the narrator makes about the house being, ‘’near Leamy’s National School’’,  We can assume  that it has not, because this implies he is still of school age, therefore not an adult and therefore not much time has passed since ''the twins death.''

The narrator also sounds extremely childlike through the way he speaks. He lists continuously, rather then composing coherent sentences and lacks in pauses, very reminiscent as to how a child/young person would speak.

The narrator mentions ...

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