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Final questions - Easter Holiday Jobs ....
Read chapter 14, and especially pp. 357 – 360
- What mood / effect do these pages create?
- Why is the complete situation narrated two times on pp. 358 – 359?
- How does it relate to he ending of the chapter on p. 360?
Read the remaining chapters over the holidays!
Chapters XV II – XVIII
- Show Frank's final liberation from his guilt, and emancipation from the old forces and feelings that held him down. (NOTES)
- What is the meaning of the last chapter? NOTES!
FINISH your NOTES!
Father = Malachy McCourt:
- born on a farm in North ireland, in Toome, Country Antrim
- dropped on his head when he was a child
- faught with the Old IRA
- was a fugitive with a price on his head
- catholic
- was in jail because he has rubbed a truck
- thinning hair and collapsing teeth, hang dog look
- drinks very much alcohol all the time
- didn`t want to marry Angela because he had no job and couldn`t support the family
--> even thought about fleeing before marriage
- doesn`t care about his children until the daughter Margaret is born
- stops drinking because of her and spends a lot of time with his daughter
- so happy about his daughter that he dances around --> which he did never before!
- proud of his homecountry --> Ireland patriot --> children have to sing songs about Ireland and he a
- after the death of Margaret he starts drinking again, even more than he did before the birth of her
- gets money for margaret`s dead body and uses it to buy alcohol
- doesn`t take care about his other children and is only on the way for drinking
--> isn`t at home all the day
Respect
p. 101 - 103
- Father always has to wear a collar and a tie (even when he goes working hard on a farm
--> symbol for respect for himself
- People dislike Malachy the moment they hear that he comes from the North of Ireland (--> accent)
- He doesn't accept the Limerick accent (his sons speak Limerick accent)
--> nationality conflict between North and South Ireland
- Difference between men and women: Mother can go begging whereas for Malachy respect is more important than the well-being of the family
p. 105 - 109
- boys from school laugh at Franky, his brother and Angela carrying the pig's-head
- Franky and Malachy get coal from a pub
--> children point at them and laugh
p. 113 - 114
- men from the St. Vincent de Paul Society feel rather pity than respect
- they stress that they treat everyone equally
but: they ask Malachy about his accent
- Angela begs for boots from the St. Vincent de Paul Society for her children
--> Malachy feels disgraced and is ashamed --> Malachy is afraid of losing his respect, worth or dignity
Gender roles (p. 118-123)
men:
- sit outside smoking
- looking at the world and discussing the problems in the world
- walk to the labour exchange and are tired because of that --> they get the chairs and not the women
- watch children play
- read newspapers --> don`t want to be disturbed by their women
- go to the library
- wondering what to do with the rest of the day --> some do bets, some go to library
- go to pubs in the evening --> come home singing
women:
- stand around and chat with each other
- mostly stay at home and take care of the children
- clean the house and have to cook
- go to cinema and watch romantic films, buy sweets and cigarettes, and if their husbands earn enough money they even buy chocolate
- have to get charity --> men think it`s shameful to go there
- they don`t begrudge their husbands when they are sitting around, drinking tea and are smoking their cigarettes
Level of language and its effect in the last paragraph on page 247-248
- a lot of adjectives
- always the same structure of the sentences
- enumerations
- ??? formal style --> no dialect ???? what???
- participal constructions
Narrative trick on p. 252 and 256
- classical irony:
- Angela tells her son that everything will "surely" become better
- narrator repeats "surely" --> hint to the reader that the situation will get worse
- antagonism between:
- what parents and grown-ups say/announce and actually do
- --> Frankie loses belief in parents
- Frankie feels guilty because he made mistakes