https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw Made with a curious mind en-us 2018-03-15 14:30:33 UTC 2026-02-08 13:56:45 UTC hello@padlet.com kaysheilamitche https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242383507 What is McCourt's purpose in your assigned chapter? 

Explain how at least two rhetorical strategies help convey McCourt's message and achieve his purpose. Cite page numbers. ]]> 2018-03-15 14:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242383507 jasonr244 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242464434 His purpose is to convey the struggles of the Irish Catholic childhood through his experiences with First Communion and Confession.]]> 2018-03-15 16:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242464434 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242464502 "Even the poorest of the poor don't go out on Christmas Day picking coal off the road. There is not use asking Dad to go because he will never stoop that low...It's a rule he has. Mam can't go because of the pain in her back"
"[The Father] makes his way downstairs with the candle, sleeps on a chair, misses work in the morning, loses the job at the cement factory, and we're back on the dole again"
Purpose: The purpose of Chapter 3 is to further elaborate on how miserable Frank's childhood was following the significant events of the first Christmas in Ireland and the birth of Micheal, and how these events affected the family. Also the chapter serves to demonstrate how repetitive McCourt's young life was.]]> 2018-03-15 16:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242464502 jasonr244 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242464533 "He tells us we're hopeless, the worst class he ever had for First Communion but as sure as God made little apples he'll make Catholics of us" (118).

Very strict about Catholic faith, and they are willing to go to great extents in order to enforce the strict rules and procedures of Catholicism.]]> 2018-03-15 16:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242464533 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242465305 Chapter one is primarily used to demonstrate the miserable childhood that McCourt suffered while he and his family lived in America as a reference point when comparing to his childhood when he moved back to Ireland.]]> 2018-03-15 16:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242465305 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242465379 Metaphor - "He drinks his tea and tells us stories and shows us letters and words in the Daily News or he smokes a cigarette, stares at the wall, runs his tongue over his lips" (24)
Explanation - This is a metaphor for the contrast between the American miserable childhood and the miserable Catholic Irish childhood and is also reflective of Frank's father's two differing moods throughout the book.

Symbol - "The room had a fireplace where we could boil water for our tea or an egg if we ever came into money" (59)
Explanation - The egg symbolizes the potential for wealth possible for the McCourt family in America.]]> 2018-03-15 16:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242465379 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242465639 McCourt seeks to convey the pressure that the Irish Catholic church imposes on Frank and his family. He portrays his experience at confession when the priest continuously chastises him, calling him a "hooligan for going to the pictures instead of [his] dance lessons" and that "he sinned by taking [his] mother's sixpence and lying and there's a hot place in hell for the likes of [him]" (McCourt 144-145). By using polysyndeton, the author intends to recreate the verbal abuse endured from the priest through the endless insults. Additionally, McCourt discusses the constant need for his family to appear as firm Catholics so that Frank's "mother can tell the St. Vincent de Paul Society and they'll know [they're] good Catholic[s]" (McCourt 146). McCourt develops a contrast between actually keeping firm Catholic faith and keeping a facade of being a good Catholic so that an impoverished Irish Catholic family could be fed, which emphasizes the contrived state of the McCourt's Catholic faith. ]]> 2018-03-15 16:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242465639 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242466158 The purpose of chapter two is to detail or show his and his family's uneasy assimilation to Irish life and society.]]> 2018-03-15 16:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242466158 jasonr244 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242466998 "he can't wait to grow up and be fourteen so that he can run away and pass for seventeen and join the English army and go to India where it's nice and warm and he'll live in a tent with a dark girl with the red dot on her forehead and he'll be lying there eating figs, that's what they eat in India, figs, and she'll cook the curry day and night and plonk on a ukulele and when he has enough money he'll send for the whole family and they'll all live in the tent especially his poor father who's at home coughing up great gobs of blood because of the consumption" (120). 

Contributes to his desperation for a better childhood as he aspires for a better future, and it shows his immaturity as a child who cannot make complete, coherent thoughts.]]> 2018-03-15 16:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242466998 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242468341 "If you have no shoes at all you'll have all the barefoot boys on your side. If you have rubber tires on your shoes you're all alone with your brother and you have to fight your own battles."
Through the use of parallelism, McCourt is able to emphasize dilemmas that he often faces as a part of his miserable childhood and highlights the lack of options one has when they are poor.]]> 2018-03-15 16:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242468341 jasonr244 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242469542 "I want to tell him I knew all about Cuchulain when I was three going on four, that I saw Cuchulain in Dublin, that Cuchulain thinks nothing of dropping into my dreams (123).

His need for a father figure is shown through this allusion as he imagines Cuchulain as his father figure. His lack of a strong father figure in his childhood created the need for this mythological creature to take the place of Frank's fatherly respects.]]> 2018-03-15 16:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242469542 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242469726 Diction- "Are ye Yanks or what? And when we tell them we came from America they want to know. Are ye gangsters or cowboys?" (pg.79) 
They get picked on because of their Irish accents. 

Pathos- "It is better not to cry because you have to stick with the boys in the school and you never ever want to give the masters and satisfaction" (pg. 81) 
Evoke a sense of sympathy for the misery. 


Pathos- "]]> 2018-03-15 16:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242469726 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242473537 "If  you ask a question they tell you it's a mystery , you'll understand when you grow up, be a good boy, ask your mother, ask your father, for the love o'Jesus leave me alone, go out and play."
Through the use of an asyndeton, Francis emphasizes the cyclical nature of his interactions with his parents and highlights the disregard parents have for their children's'  inquiries. The monotonous, cyclical nature of Francis's childhood makes it so miserable.]]> 2018-03-15 16:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/5196xll8y0iw/wish/242473537