Angela's Ashes Chapter Summaries

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Journal: * Takes place in Ireland then in America. It bounces back and forth for a while. Talks about the family. Father was dropped as a child and grew up to be a drunk. Mother was poor and gave birth to Angela around New Years. Angela was sent off to America for being useless. * This book drags on a lot. It’s kind of boring. Talks about the family and how what they did to Angela was bad. How Angela married and gives birth to their child Male who they now call Francis (I think). Francis see’s a dying dog and compares the blood of his father and the dog. He says they are the same. However, the dog is dying and his father merely bit his tongue. * The family relationships are so complicated and the story is dragging on which makes it even harder to understand.…show more content…
Catechism- A summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians “The priest will come soon to examine us on the catechism and everything else” P. 121 7. Kiln- A furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, esp. one for calcining lime or firing pottery. “His name is Bill Galvin and he has a good job down at the lime kiln.” P. 135 8. Penance- “No penance, father?” P. 185 9. Porter- “He said I’d grow up powerful if I had nothing else but two eggs in a pint of porter every day.” P. 300 10. Beyant- no definition “…there’s an urchin beyant that’s makin’ off with all the milk and bread.” p.300 11. Sowl- no definition “Mass in the state of grace for if you ate them eggs with a sin on your sowl they’ll stick in your gullet, so they will.” P.310 12. Gullet- “Mass in the state of grace for if you ate them eggs with a sin on your sowl they’ll stick in your gullet, so they will.” P.310 13. Martyr- “Then there’s St. Wilgefortis, virgin martyr, July twentieth.” P.302 14. Leper- “He was walking along one day and a leper said, Hoy, St. Moling, where are you going?” p. 303 15. Thruppence- “Thruppence.”

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