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Project order:
 * 1) Frankie's experiences
 * 2) Typhoid scene
 * 3) Powerpoint
 * 4) Table Display
 * 5) Alternate ending
 * 6) Game

 Script for Displaying Projects  Leia-**Hello, and welcome visitors. Thank you for joining us today in the Frank McCourt museum of New York City. Today, we have a special exhibit we'd like to share with you all. It is an assorted exhibition, with items that all relate to Frank McCourt's Pulitzer prize winning novel ** //**Angela's Ashes. ** //**To begin, we have a special guest with us today, Frank McCourt! **

 <span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alex: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hello visitors. Today, I'd like to recount to you my experiences as a child. **     <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Frank's experiences project) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, that you can understand me and have some understanding of what occurs as I was a child and in ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Angela's Ashes ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, which is set in my childhood; it should be easier for you to understand this museum ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Additionally, I will now take over as your guide through this museum. So, our next item is a film of a time when my life was worsened. This is when I was sick with typhoid. Nevertheless, this was not a time that was always horrible. Here, let's watch it. **     <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Typhoid movie) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I would like to welcome the creator of this magnificent film to express the importance of this scene in my life **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leia: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hello again and thank you for watching my film. I believe this is an significant scene because it portrays the beginning of Frankie's love for books, words, and writing. This love would later bring Frankie his career and also a Pulitzer Prize award. Frankie is there more that you would like to share? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alex: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, this also displays my first experience of love. Moreover, it shows the beginning of my hardships with love because the girl who I loved died. My next attempt at love was also a hardship that changed me forever. The girl's name was Theresa Carmody and she was beautiful but sick. Nevertheless, for this bit of the tour, I would like to invite Gabby McCormack to share the filmstrip she created of this my second endeavor with love. **    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Powerpoint with Gabby's descrptions) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you, Gabby. I loved Theresa, but she altered my view of love and faith. She made me lose complete faith in the Irish Catholic church and she also made me fearful of love. However, let's continue this journey onward, and our next exhibit is a table display of symbolic items for ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Angela's Ashes. ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All of these items hold meaning to my life, as well as to ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Angela's Ashes. ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I would like to invite my comrades Chris Whitehead and Dalton Kasinger to present these items while I describe them. **     <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Table Display with descriptions) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another item in this exhibit that holds meaning is this book. It is the alternate ending to **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Angela's Ashes ** //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and recently, there has been controversy over whether it is true or not. Some say, why would it be made it if it was not true; and, others say, why would I have included a different ending in my published book. However let's look at this ending, which was made into a comic strip by Leia Trice. **    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Alternate Ending) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So, the controversy is if I just left America alone or if I left with my family, but I will never tell. Finally, to end this exhibition, we have a game for you to play. **    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Game) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif,serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you for joining us today and we hope you enjoy viewing and learning in the rest of the museum. **

Wednesday Jobs: Items to bring for Wednesday:
 * Alex- 25 jeopardy questions
 * Dalton- put summary on Wikispace
 * Chris- write experiences of Frankie and what that was like
 * Gabby- table display descriptions
 * Leia- make script
 * Boys:
 * Old looking- pants-holey, tennis shoes or no shoes, plain button-up long-sleeved shirt, a pair of clean shoe laces
 * Girls:
 * Dress, jacket, black wrap, pants, button-up shirt, a pair of clean shoe laces, plain shoes
 * Fruit, brown bag
 * Baby dolls, carriage-pram
 * For typhoid scene:
 * Two white bed sheets, red lipstick

Project 1: Video of a major scene-Pg. 190
 * Frankie has typhoid

Project 2: Alex is Frankie

Project 3: Table Display
 * Table items: Cuchulain, tea/bread, raggedy clothes, books, lack of money, job-bike- http://www.ehow.com/how_6911873_make-bike-paper-origami.html, American/Irish flag, alcohol, Catholic, Woodbines

Project 4: Write and **act out different ending to story**
 * Begins from page 357
 * Frankie reconciles- after party gains courage to talk to mom, they hug and embrace
 * When he goes to the train in the morning, his father is working as the train conductor and they reconnect. The dad does not drink anymore and has money because he was working to better himself before he came to see them.
 * Frankie does not leave for Ireland. Then everyone comes home and they all return to America.
 * Dad asks Isn't this a grand country? Frankie says, tis

Project 5: Game- summary
 * Shutes and Ladders
 * 8 dice

Project 6: Powerpoint/filmstrip of a major story event

Major scenes: Maggie dies, 1st communion, gets typhoid, fight with Laman, meets and falls in love with Theresa Camodry on telegram job, hits mom

Project 4: Alternate Ending to //Angela's Ashes// //Foreword: This begins from page 357, where Frankie is leaving for America in the morning and he was being thrown a wake party. At the wake party his mother sings to him a sad song. Frankie and Angela have been having great issues in their relationship due to her betrayal of sleeping with the man who abused Frankie. Afterwards, Frankie hit her. They have not discussed or dealt with this. Now the wake party has ended.// I still want to tell her I'm sorry but if I do I'll want to tell her she's the cause of it all. Then it tumbles from my mouth. Mam, I'm sorry I slapped you, but you shouldn't have climbed into bed with Laman. Mam cries, What did I do? You went to the loft that night. Mam cries and won't look at me. She stares at the wall and says, Ah, no, Francis, I'm sorry. She looks at me and I see that she is sorry. I take her and squeeze her. She squeezes back and at first, we smile and laugh till the tears are in my eyes and she gets the tears herself. Then we weep like eejits. Everyone's up early in the morning to see me off at the railway station. Mam can hardly walk there and parts of the way I hold her up. We watch her walk till she says What are ye gawkin' at? We walk through the streets of Limmerick. All around the train station is noisy. The train wails into the station. My family is crying and hugging. My family stops hugging, they stand gawking. I turn around and my father takes me into a hug with a grin on his face. All around, he is giving hugs to everyone. What are you doing here? My father stops, nods, and looks at each of us. Och, I've quit drinking. I got a job for the train station. I wanted to better myself to prove I will stay with you all. I was going to find you here today, but it seems you wanted to meet me. It's hard to understand this and everyone stays still. Till dad says, It's a sad day when you come back and your kids question and won't talk to you. Mam begins to cry. I'm thinking of leaving for the train which still is in the station. Then Alphie tugs on my hand and says who is this man? Why does no one talk. I look at my dad and he looks at Alphie curiously. His face shifts, he looks sad. The tears are welling in his eyes and he kneels to grab Alphie. Mam yelps and Alphie hides behind my legs, holding there with a iron grip. Dad takes a step back with a tear streaking his face, while Mam grabs Alphie and holds him. Alphie can not understand who Dad is and says Frankie, Frankie the train. It's too late. I have missed it. Mam's cries are louder. Mam doesn't say anything, she turns around and in a rush for her leaves the station. I grab my brothers and follow her. My father follows us. Back at home, Mam sits. The tears well in her eyes again. I wait inside the door and the boys stay beside me. Dad walks inside and holds Mam. She hits and punches him and yells at him. He holds her till she is still. He looks shaken up, but understanding. He whispers to her. They whisper for a long time and Micheal and Alphie leave to play outside. I wait. Mam laughs a little from time to time, she smiles at some of the things he whispers and looks shocked a lot as well. They whisper together and then look up at me. Mam says Dad's wages will take us all to America, even Malachy. I think of all the bad things Dad did. The problems I had because of him, like wearing tire-sole shoes, not being able to eat, and living with Laman. I think of him leaving and never coming back, except once when Mam was sick. I think of him taking five pound and spending it all on acohol. I think of swearing my life to Ireland and Roddy McCorely songs. Then Alphie and Micheal walk in. Mam says We are going to America. The boys start to run all around and jump up and down. Mam smiles at me and looks at them. Dad watches both of them, sadness filling his face. I think, The boys need their dad. Their lives could be so much better if he is true. Everyone can be happy. I tell Malachy that Dad is home. Malachy runs home and beats Dad. He curses, shouts, and kicks him. Mam stands to the side ineffectual. Dad lays on the ground taking it. The boys are terrified. I grab Malachy and hold him. Mam yells, he is going to take us to America while sobbing. The boys come up to Malachy and grasp onto him and Malachy's face shifts. He looks at the boys, he looks at Dad, and then his body loosens. I let go. Malachy says, When? Whenever, Dad says from the ground. Malachy looks at Alphie and Micheal and nods his head. We should go soon. Dad says, I'd be glad to. Mam has us boys go tell all our family the news. Grandma and Aunt Aggie won't talk with us once we are done and tell us, We will not be seein' you off due to the disgrace of that Northern Ireland man. Uncle Pa comes with us to see dad, but when he sees Dad already beaten up, he leaves with hugs and God, Bless yous to my mother and us boys. My dad hands us seven hundred quid from the bag he had and tells us, Take this and our lucky family tickets to America. Malachy and I take them money and I am a millionaire. We walk like cocks in a hen house. I wave and greet all the ladies I see, and Malachy does too but he takes some money out of my pocket to get the girl's to come over. They laugh, but do not meet with us. We walk into Riordan's travel agency. Riordan says, That's a load of cash comin' from you, Frankie. Is it all real? He checks the cash, and gives us the tickets. There is a lot of money left over, and Malachy and I buy some good food for the family. We hurry home and our family throws ourselves a party with the food. The boat leaves with us two days later. The whole time Dad tells stories to Alphie and Micheal and tries to tell us how we should remember them too. We do, but those we're our stories and now they are Alphie and Micheal's. Dad tells them about Cuchlain and when he pauses in the story catching his breath, I tell the rest of it. Then, Malachy tells about Cuchlain's wife and we laugh together at the ridiculousness. The boys laugh too, but they do not understand what is happening and Mom smiles at our laughing family. We see the outline of the Statue of Liberty late in the night. Dad and I rest our elbows on the rail of the deck we watch the lights of America twinkling. He says, My God, that was a lovely day, Frank. Isn't this a great country, altogether? 'Tis.

Project 3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Table Display: Item Descriptions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Cuchulain represents Frank's childhood and his poverty. The story of Cuchulain was the only thing Frankie had, and to keep it, he would beat other people up when they spoke about Cuchulain or tried to tell a story about Cuchulain. Thusly, displaying his poverty. Moreover, this was the only thing he had as a child, so it represents his childhood. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Likewise, t<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ea and bread depict Frankie's poverty as a child. The tea that they drank came from tea bags that had been brewed over and over, making bland and tasteless tea, because they could not afford new tea bags or leaves for every brew. Additionally, the bread conveys Frank's childhood poverty because the only thing any of the babies ate was sugary bread. Moreover, once when Frank's parent's were not caring for him, Frank had to make the sugary bread alone with spoiled ingredients. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Raggedy clothes display Frank's poverty physically. They show off his inability to buy new clothes without holes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> As previously seen, lack of money or poverty is Frankie's entire life. This has been displayed on the table through an empty wallet. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Alternatively, while many things represent Frankie's poverty, there are also things that contributed to Frankie being poor. One is alcohol, which is represented here by a mug. Frankie's father, Malachy, was severely an alcoholic. Due to his love of the drink, he would easily lose his jobs. Thusly, making them poor because they had no type of income to rely on. Additionally, when he still had his job, he would spend all the money he made to drink with. Moreover, when the family did not have any money, Frankie's father would try to sneak money for a drink. For example, when they first moved to Ireland and were without any money, Frank's dad went to get money from serving the country. When he did they would not pay him because they did not have him in their books. However, they did give him money for a ride back, but Frank's father says that the money is not even worth a pint. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Similarly, toffee displays the influence that Frankie's father had on him. Frankie gorged on toffee anytime he had money as a kid. He would not get tickets for his friends to enjoy a movie with him because he wanted to buy toffee instead. Frankie treats the toffee like his father treated alcohol. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Woodbines are another item that contributed to Frankie's hardships in Ireland. Angela, Frankie's mom, always had to smoke cigarettes or Woodbines. So, rather than being able to feed her kids the best, she would buy herself a box of Woodbines. Therefore, Frankie could not always eat because his mother would be buy cigarettes for herself using the money to feed him. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The American flag represent the life that Frankie and his family want to go back to. America is where they can be happy and all their “problems” will disappear. It also displays the life they left thinking they would have a better life in Ireland, where the conditions were actually worse. The Irish flag represents where most of Frank's childhood occurred, but also Irish pride. Irish pride comes from Frankie's father. When he came home drunk he would always make the boys swear their lives to Ireland. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Living in Ireland added to Frankie's life of struggle due to the importance of religion to the Irish. The Irish Catholic church was a big part of Frankie's life. On this display, it has been shown by a Catholic cross. The Catholic church affected what he learned and how he learned it. This is due to him going to a Catholic school, where they teach according to Catholic ideas. Moreover, in his life, the Catholic religion was everywhere and he it was forced upon him. Being forced to believe in a church does not cause actual belief; so in the end, Frankie does not believe in the Irish church and does not go to any of the masses. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Relatively, an angel represents the Catholic church, but also Frankie's innocence. The loss of Frank's innocence contributes to his disbelief in the Catholic church. When Frankie was young and innocent, he believed angels gave and took babies from people who were married. However, when he learned that he had been conceived before marriage, he quit believing in angels. He also lost his innocence because he learned the real way to have a baby. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Liberation Serif,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -moz-left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Finally, books were Frankie’s only way out of his world in Ireland. They allowed him to escape his hardships. His love for writing spurred from his love of reading. It lead him to two of his jobs. Thusly, allowing him to escape his hardship of living in Ireland because through writing he earned money for tickets to America. Moreover, he earned money that allowed his family to live a better life.

Project 2: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Experiences of Frank McCourt <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was struck by poverty from the start, my family barely scraping by in New York, with me being only the age of four. I was still practically a toddler, and yet I had to take care of my three younger brothers because my parents could not understand how to care for us. Sitting at the park on a cold night watching my three brothers, I was forced to steal food from the Italian supermarket down the street to feed them. Then, my sister Margaret passed away and Mam would not take care of any of us. So, when my aunts saw the mess we lived in they sent us to Ireland. Abruptly moving to Ireland did not help cure our situation whatsoever. Soon after moving, my twin brothers unexpectedly died. Eugene died before Oliver, so Oliver would stare out the window, longingly for him. Then, one night we woke and Oliver was dead to. Moreover, due to my father's lack of ability to hold a job or acquire a job, my family dropped to a new level of poor. This forced us to beg to the Catholic donation center to give us dole money or food tickets. Sometimes, we had to go look out on the street for dropped pieces of coal to light our fire with. Then, my mother was forced to become a beggar at the Protestant church, possibly one of the most shameful acts that a person can commit. Again, my father seemed not to care much for our family's needs. For example, when the soles of Malachy and my shoes wore out, my father simply replaced the soles with pieces of a bicycle tire; however, what he really needed to do was maintain a job, so we could have new shoes. Another terrible event in my life was when I had the typhoid fever. I did not care about anything and I bleed from everywhere, such as out of my nose, eye, butt. Then, I was stuck in the hospital for weeks and weeks with no one to talk to. Until, a girl was in the room beside me. She shared her books with me, and I believe that she was my first love. However, we were not allowed to speak with one another and I was moved to a different room and soon she died. Nevertheless, I still and a love for books after her death and read much more. Loving words lead me to my second job of writing notices to people who owed money to an old woman by the name of Mrs. Finucane. I was great at it. I also had another job that went along with this one and that was as a telegram boy. While delivering telegrams, I meet another girl. Her name is Theresa Carmody and she is dying too. However, I love her and when she is weak with sickness, I wish to hold her and make it go away. As my life goes, she too dies and she is the main cause of my disbelief in the Irish Catholic church. With her dead, I feel guilt that she may not have made it to heaven because of the sins we commited. I also can not believe in the church because I prayed for God to help Theresa and she still died. This happened every other time that I prayed for help from God: he never helped. So, I quit going to masses and quit believing in the church. Finally, after a while of saving money form my jobs and stealing money from Mrs. Finucane, I had enough money to take me to America. So, I left Ireland behind. Sadly, this included leaving my family behind, but I needed to leave. Now I am in the wonderful land of America, which is a great country indeed. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">.