Frank's Relationship With His Father

He then goes to the hospital to see Deborah Ann Kay and is deeply affected by it. He feels this is his chance to do something right and wants to provide fair justice for her instead of just taking the money. He doesn’t take the settlement or tell the Donaheys about it which he is supposed to tell them. He also stole mail from Maureen Rooney to get ahold of Kaitlin Costello Pryce. Frank did all of this because the end would justify the means. Even though some of the things he did weren’t right he wanted to do the right thing by providing justice for Deborah Ann Kay.

Frank needs something to protect. Cee, his dearly loved sister, take up this role for most of the novel. Concurrently, Frank satisfies his troubled need to care for someone and loves his sister. Willingly, Frank admits, “I’ve had only two regular women. I liked the small breakable thing inside each one. Wherever their personality, smarts, or looks, something soft lay in each…A little V…that I could break with a forefinger if I wanted to. But never did” (67-68), Frank expresses his obsession with weakness. Frank denotes this weakness as a small child to whom he is the parent. He handles it cautiously, cares for it, and provides a home for it. He needs it to feel needed, which happens to be a reoccurring theme throughout the novel. “When…I caught my reflection in a store window, I thought it was somebody else. Some dirty pitiful-looking guy…Right then, I decided to clean up” (69). In this moment, Frank’s search of his relationship with Lily begins from a forceful self-hatred that has presented itself since his deployment to Korea. After his relationship with Lily fades and

Frank morphs his personality into whatever someone wants him to be. To others he has the perfect family; however, he has a secret. When he is with Kenny he is rude to Tub. But when he is with Tub he seems to be himself. His affair with the babysitter is killing this supposed family man. He doesn't want to leave his wife simply because she's been good to him. The obvious reason of love isn't even mentioned in relation to his wife. When Frank tells Tub about true love it's as if he is a fifteen-year-old girl himself. The way he describes it one could easily imagine the same conversation happening in the girls' bathroom of a high school after a first kiss. "`Tub, have you ever been really in love?' `Well-' `I mean really in love.' He squeezed Tub's wrist. `With your whole being.' `I don't know. When you put it like that, I don't know.' `You haven't then. Nothing against you, but you'd know it if you had.' Frank let go of Tub's arm. `This isn't just some bit of fluff I'm talking about'" (Wolff 88). Frank is extremely immature. His views on life and love make it evident that he would make a connection with a fifteen-year-old. He believes that a friend should be

Frank was in the war and got shot in his leg which makes him incapable to walk. The Georgia Flu, caused all the power to be out in the world, making life for Frank a struggle. Frank and his brother Jeevan have stayed in his apartment the whole time and never left because it will be very hard for Frank to live out in the new world and incapable to get him out of the apartment with no electricity. This is when Frank made a moral decision about committing suicide to give Jeevan a better life. “I think there’s just survival out there, Jeevan. I think you should go out there and try to

1. How does Frank provide for his family while Angela is sick in bed? Are his actions justified?

Since Frank spent part of his childhood in America, he learned how the society and working class functioned. Frank looks at America as a classless society where his goals will be realized and his talents would be rewarded, despite his lower-class upbringing. Frank’s first experience with this is presented when Angela goes to the market with no money and the clerk states “… you always pay your bill sooner or later and you can have anything you like in the store” (McCourt 28). I believe that this instance opened Frank’s eyes to how many more opportunities he would have in America than in Ireland. Frank understands at an early age that he will never be able to return to America unless he saves money and escapes the slums because only “rich” people are able to save money. This is proven when Frank says “I'd like to be a Jesuit some day but there's no hope of that when you grow up in a lane. Jesuits are very particular. They don't like poor people. They like people with motor cars who stick out their little fingers when they pick up their teacups” (McCourt 245). Even though Frank is a strong believer that sinning sends you to Hell, he is willing to write life-threatening letters for Mrs. Finucane to her customers who owe her money. Frank is so determined to escape Ireland and to escape the bottomless pit of Ireland’s society class that he would even go against everything he believes

Mr. Frank shows courage, compassion, and sacrifice. This book shares the story of a young girl and her family hiding during world war 2. She goes into hiding in a small annex for two years with another family and two other men. This book shares the story from Anne’s point of view. it’s a great book to read and tells you how they survived for 2 years.

Frank is also dedicated to his children. He loves to talk about Lola and Frankie, and lights up when he does. He has expressed that he works hard to provide a safe and happy environment to raise his children, and I have tremendous respect for Frank in regards to his desire to be reunited with his children.

Maybe that’s what I was born to put on the page, he thought.” This proves the importance of relaying the thoughts and experiences of their lines. Secondly, another main point of the article is that Frank was embarrassed about his poverty stricken, abandon filled life. McCourt said, “’When you have nothing—no TV, no radio, no music—you have only the language. So you use it. We were street kids—we saw the absurdity and laughed at it. And we were fools; we were always dreaming. Bacon and eggs—we dreamed of that’” (Kornbluth, 200). He doesn’t want to have to discuss his past life events, because he thought that it may cause his students to lose respect for him. But, as it turns out, this didn’t happen. The students had come from quite similar situations in their lives and could relate to McCourt’s experiences.

In the novel Stop Time, the first words that Conroy states to the reader is, “My father stopped living with us when I was three or four” (11). Conroy’s choice to declare this as the first words of his memoir reveals the entire foreground as to why Frank is the way he is. From the start, the lack of Conroy’s father caused doubt and lack of self-worth inside the mind of Conroy. Without a consistent and stable father figure whom he can be dependent on, it can hence lessen one’s overall opinion of themselves. From the beginning, when his father left, Conroy struggled with the constant desire to fill that void and wound that his father had left him.

In 1935,after a year of living down the street, Frank and Nora (Flynn) Young, and their two young children, Mary Ann and Pat, move back in with Nora’s parents and two sisters who are now living at 4133A Peck. Frank has a job working at a nearby tavern at 3516 Kossuth. It is not known if Frank is managing the tavern or merely working there. He has held this job since moving to North St. Louis. For Frank and Nora, 1936 is a year of change. For the third

When his father takes him to be an altar boy, he is turned away due to the poverty of his family. This is disturbing to young Frank, and begins thoughts of discontent in his mind. Also, when he goes to look into enrolling in secondary school with his mother at his side, the Christian Brother there slams the door in his face due to his street appearance. Regardless of his high intelligence, he is denied a higher education by the Church based on his economic status. The night before his 16th birthday Frank drinks his first pint and strikes his mother; on attempting to confess to a Jesuit priest, the door is again closed to him: “He says, Go away. You’re drunk. Child like you drunk as a lord ringing for a priest at this hour. Go away or I’ll call the guards…. You’re drunk and you’re not in a proper spirit of repentance (340).” Frank is panicked about the condition of his eternal soul but is forced to remain in a state of sin because of the lack of compassion by this priest. The transformation is complete: Frank is no longer the innocent little child who runs to the Church to unburden his soul, but instead he is a cynical adolescent who has lost his faith in God.

In the Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, Frank met multiple people who changed his life. For instance, his family had an impact on his life. His father had not been there for him as he grew up, while his mother changed his last name to hers so Frank would not know he was Irish. John’s introduction into Frank’s life was what had truly ignited Frank’s anger. John was his mother’s new boyfriend, who eventually married his mother and raised two children with her. He also beat Frank as a child and would often call him stupid or mentally retarded. After for what seemed like a while, John convinced Frank’s mother to kick Frank out of the house, which she has responded accordingly to. He leaves to live with his cousin Shawn, who would introduce him to life as a skinhead. Shawn and his friends introduced and taught Frank about neo-nazi customs Frank became a skinhead. Frank’s cousin Nick was another huge element in his life, since he taught him many life lessons. An example of such is seen when Frank joins and takes part in Nick’s crew, which Nick then explains to Frank that he cannot protect him despite the fact that they are family. In addition to family, Frank also met more people that changed his life during his time in an Illinois prison. For example, his best friends in prison (Little G. and Jello) allowed him see the world without hatred and see that race or skin color does not make them any different from one another. Their words broadened Frank’s newly found

Anne Frank had trouble with her parents but she also had some things she could compare both parents. For instance they both did not care whether her reports were good or bad as long as she was well and happy. They both made her mad at times and they are both her parents whether she likes it or not. Each parent had their own way of viewing Anne and each one of them cared for Anne at least a little. It also seemed like they each had a favorite child Anne’s mummy had Margot as a Favorite it seemed and it also seemed as if Anne’s Father’s favorite was Anne.

Yes, I believe Frank grew up too fast. Frank was a very mature child for his age and even though he was always hungry, he was still able to dream and have goals about a future life in America (Mr. Hannon encouraged him to work hard and get out of Limerick). He was forced to take care of his siblings at a very young age. When his father was gone and his mother was sick, what other choice did he have? He was forced to grow too quickly especially because he grew up in Limerick, which meant he was exposed to conditions that no child have to go through.