https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5 Made with a curious mind en-us 2018-03-15 12:33:43 UTC 2025-11-18 00:04:03 UTC hello@padlet.com kaysheilamitche https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/242307086 What is McCourt's purpose in your assigned chapter? 

Explain how at least two rhetorical ]]> 2018-03-15 12:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/242307086 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243972097 The purpose of chapter 4 is to provide a specific example of how a day he was looking forward to and was supposed to be happy ended up being another miserable day in his Catholic childhood. In this chapter, he uses the metaphor of the "angel on the seventh step" to compare the family's new baby to a blessing sent from Heaven. Also, he states how "the master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland" as a comparison and example of the conflict between religion and nationalism in his daily life.. These two examples show where he looks to find an explanation for why he has a miserable life. ]]> 2018-03-20 12:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243972097 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243972233 quote: ¨He makes his way downstairs with the candle, sleeps on a chair, misses work in the morning, losses the job at the cement factory, and we´re back in the dole again.¨

purpose: To illustrate how misery and sadness follows the family even when something good seems to come into their lives. However, history seemingly repeats itself and heartache ensues. 

audience: A general audience to help sympathize and empathize with the miserable life of Frankie. 

claim: Life continues to get more and more miserable for Frankie. 

Tone: Bitter and hopeless]]> 2018-03-20 12:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243972233 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243972421 In chapter one of Angela´s Ashes, the author establishes the McCourt early family history through imagery and periodic sentence thoroughly to convey to the audience the melancholy, ´´miserable childhood.¨ McCourt introduces he memoir with a blunt, periodic sentence ¨when I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived a all." This establishes an eerie and somber mood within the audience as they gain this initial impression on McCourt´s early life. In addition to the periodic sentence, McCourt utilizes imagery to visually demonstrate to the audience the Consumption that subdued Limerick. McCourt describes the River Shannon as the contributor to ¨hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive coughs.¨ The imagery contributes to McCourt´s purpose of showcasing the unfortunate events that shadowed his younger years. ]]> 2018-03-20 12:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243972421 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243973269 The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the main idea that McCourt had a miserable childhood that is constantly devastated by death that he has grown to feel numb to the pain. This is mainly exemplified through the death of the twins. The author uses plenty of pathos to have people feel empathy/ sympathy (depending on the reader) towards his situation so they get an insight as to what the "irish childhood" was like. An example of this emotional appeal is when Oliver passes away. On page 81, the author uses imagery to truly build a picture of the pain the family it went through. The talk of Eugene, Olivers twin brother, displaying his heart break and confusion, for he is too young to comprehend death, really tugs on the audience's heart and causes the audience to sympathize with the authors past. To show the numbness the McCourt feels, he expresses and uses disconnected diction. He does this when it is stated that "he died anyways" when referring to Eugene's death 6 months after Oliver. The way he states this shows his despair and slight lack of hope since he just keeps getting hit by loss.]]> 2018-03-20 12:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243973269 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243973682 The purpose of chapter 5 is to illustrate that he was longing for the joy of a normal childhood, so he could eat and pay like other children, but circumstances keep him from this. 

Evidence: ¨The Latin is hard and my knees are sore and scabby and I like to be out in the lane playing though still I´d like to be an altar boy helping the priest vest in sacristy, up there on the altar all decked out in my rd and white robes like my pal Jimmy Clark, answering the priest in Latin, moving the big book from one side of the tabernacle to the other, pouring water and wine into he chalice, pouring water over the priest´s hands, ringing the bell at consecration, kneeling, bowing, swinging the censer and benediction, sitting off to the side with the palm of my hands on my knees all serious while he gives his sermon, everyone in St. Joseph´s looking at me and admiring my ways.¨

]]> 2018-03-20 12:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243973682 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243975130 Cumulative Sentence, Repetition of "I'd Like", anaphora, and specific examples of things he wants to do and be able to do.]]> 2018-03-20 12:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243975130 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243975355 "We'll have sheets on the bed and if we save a long time a blanket or two instead of those old coats which people must have left behind during the Great Famine" (pg.109)
This vivid imagery portrays the state of poverty the McCourt Family is in. By recalling the coats as old and the Great Famine, it adds to the purpose of chapter 3


]]> 2018-03-20 12:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243975355 https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243978577 McCourt invokes his purpose through loose structure. On page 90, Frank states in a depressing tone, “I know he's not there anymore because angels come to the graveyard and open the coffin and he's far from the Shannon dampness that kills, up in the sky in heaven with Oliver and Margaret where they have plenty of fish and chips and toffee and no aunts to bother you, where all the fathers bring home the money from the Labour Exchange and you don't have to be running around to pubs to find them.” By conveying his claim in the beginning of the sentence and then listing supporting evidence, McCout emphasizes and portrays the miserable life he lived. This causes the audience to feel sympathy for Frank and his family which strengthens his argument.]]> 2018-03-20 13:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kaysheilamitche/9c2azhb69tz5/wish/243978577