Consider the following quote from Angela’s Ashes and answer the questions that follow. "When I look back on my childhood I wonde
r how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. . . . [N]othing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years." What seems to be the author’s purpose in this passage? If you were to write your own memoir, what would the tone and purpose of it be?
