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 * 1) Frank McCourt- Author of //Angela's Ashes//. He is also the protagonist and main character of the story. Frankie is a very violent boy and the "Cuchulain" story is all his. He lives deeply in poverty and his life has been very chaotic. He fell inlove with Theresa Camodry, who ultimately caused the end of Frankie's belief in the Irish Catholic church. He worked as a telegram boy, but then switched to be a threatening letter writer and English paper distribution boy. Finally, he earned enough money from that when he was twenty and left Ireland for America. However, Frankie and his mother still have an unresolved conflict over Laman abusing Frankie and Angela going that same night to Laman's bed.
 * 2) Malachy McCourt Jr.- Frank's brother. He loves Frankie and was also fearful of him as a boy. Nevertheless, when they have both grown up, Malachy wishes to be traveling to America with Frankie. Malachy also contains many of his father's attributes, like not being able to keep a job and having too large a pride.
 * 3) Oliver McCourt- Deceased. He died before his twin, Eugene.
 * 4) Eugene McCourt- Deceased. After searching for his brother, who had died, he died too from pneumonia and heart break
 * 5) Margaret McCourt- Deceased. She gladdened the whole family's lives. She soon dies and Angela and Malachy can not cope. So, they move back to Ireland with the whole family.
 * 6) Micheal McCourt- Frank's brother who is seven years younger than Frank. He can not really identify with any of his older brothers because they are too different in age. Furthermore, he and his older brothers grew up under different conditions, so it may be harder for the brothers to relate.
 * 7) Alponsus McCourt- Alphie, Frank's youngest brother, whom he named. He was not in the story much because Frankie was becoming a man while Alphie was still an infant, so their age difference was too great to make him very important to the story.
 * Angela McCourt- Frank's mother. She could not do anything, so she was shipped to New York. There, she met Malachy McCourt whom she married and has had eight kids with. She is addicted to cigarettes. She is a very broken woman and cries all the time. She also has children all the time.
 * Malachy McCourt- Frank's father. He has a very serious alcohol problem and is jobless for four years while the family lives in Ireland. Then he gets a job in England. However, he never sends the money back home. Then, when Angela is sick with pneumonia, he returns. He leaves again and sends money back to the family once.
 * The children are numbered at the top in order of youngest to oldest.


 * Angela's Family members: Pg.132 and 15**
 * Grandma Sheehan- Angela's mom. Her husband left her. She sent Angela to America because she could not do anything. She paid for the family's fare back to Ireland. They lived with her for a day and then she paid for their rent for an apartment with a bed full of fleas. She is very religious, she has pictures of Christ every where in her house. Additionally, when Frankie vomited after his first holy communion, she made him repent.
 * Aggie Keating- Angela's sister. She has red hair and red skin and they cause her to be angry. She has no children, but is angry that she can do everything and Angela can't, yet Angela has a plethora of children. She watches over the boys when Angela is sick; nevertheless, she is horrible to them by making them wash themselves outside in the cold, hitting them, not feeding them. When the family first returned to Limerick she did not even want to share food with the boys. Finally, Angela and Aggie hardly speak.
 * Pa Keating- Aggie's husband. Frank looks up to him. He was in WWI or WWII, whichever one he was in he was gassed by the French. He now works as in coal and his skin stays black because of it. He wanted to keep Oliver as his son. Everyone talks with Pa and if they did not he "wouldn't give a fiddler's fart" about it.
 * Uncle Pat- known as Ab Sheehan or The Abbot, Angela's brother. He was dropped on his head when he was a baby. He is a very simple man and his job is as a paper boy. One day, he recruits Frankie for work, but Frankie is expensive and Pat gets a cheaper boy to do the job.
 * Tom Sheehan- Angela's brother.
 * Jane- his wife who is from Galway. She looks like a Spaniard so no one talks to her
 * Peggy and Gerry- Tom and Jane's children whom all of Angela's children are not allowed to speak to. However, Frankie does not know how not to talk with them because they are their cousins.
 * Philomena MacNamara- married to Tommy Flynn. She is fierce and stays with her sister. Together, they made Malachy marry Angela and together, they made Malachy and Angela move back to America after Maggie had died. She is very religious.
 * Tommy Flynn- from Brooklyn. He is grim.
 * Delia MacNamara- married to Jimmy Fortune. She is fierce and stays with her sister. Together, they made Malachy marry Angela and together, they made Malachy and Angela move back to America after Maggie had died. She is very religious.
 * Jimmy Fortune- from County Mayo. He is grim.


 * Malachy's Family: Pg.49**
 * Grandpa McCourt- He is the only one who talks when the family begins their life in Ireland. He seems like a kind man
 * Grandma, Emily, Nora, Maggie, Vera, and Eva- Malachy's mother and sisters, all of whom hardly speak


 * Frankie's Schoolmates/Friends:**
 * Paddy Colhessy- Frankie's friend who leads a poverty-stricken life. However, because Paddy is so poor, Frankie does not get into to trouble over missing school
 * Fintan
 * Question Quigley
 * Gerry Halvey
 * Eamon
 * Peter


 * Frankie's love interests:**
 * Theresa Camodry- Frankie meets her while delivering her family their telegrams. She has consumption and everyone knows that she will die in the year. So, when Frankie got her telegram some said he was lucky because he would have "the excitement" and others thought he was unlucky because he might catch the consumption too. However, while their relationship continues, Frankie begins to love Theresa, and he just wants to take care of her when the "weakness" is on her. When she becomes, so sick she ends up in the sanatorium, Frankie feels guilty that their sins caused it. Then, Theresa dies, and Frankie attends her funeral at a distance. Nontheless, through Frankie's guilt over Theresa, Frankie attains disbelief of the Catholic church.
 * Patricia Madigan- Frankie meets her while in the hospital for typhoid fever. She reads him poems and gives him books to read. She is thirteen. They were not allowed to talk with one another; however, they did talk and that is how Patricia shared her books with him. She begins to tell him an intriguing poem, but then he is moved from the room and she dies. So, Frankie does not learn the end from Patricia.


 * Additional Characters:**
 * Mr.Hannon- Frank receives his first serious job assisting him in delivering coal and turf across Limerick