Assignment two of page 17, New Oxford English.
Title: Angela’s Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt
Brief summary: Frankie has Irish parents but lives in America, when his baby sister Margaret dies the family moves back to Ireland. The family looses another two children in Limerick. Frankies dad is an alcoholic and he’s unemployed. You follow the childhood of Frank. In the film, Frank is portrayed as a shy and pessimistic boy. Especially the ‘older’ Frank is shy, he doesn’t dare to come in the house of Teresa in the beginning and so on. Also he is very obeying in the film, the only time he doesn’t listen is when he is drunk and hits his mother. In the book however Frank is described as an optimist, someone who never gives up hope and someone who dares to tell his dad he’s useless and a failure. He isn’t shy in the book, he walks in the pubs of Limerick without knowing anybody there. Frank isn’t obeying in the book either, he gives his brother Malachy a bleeding nose in the play garden, steels fish and chips from a drunken man, etc. I think they have made Frank a weak boy in the film, and that’s not fair because in the book he’s strong and good young man. The father, Malachy, wasn’t the man I had in mind when I read the book either, but this was more a case of his looks. I expected a muscular and big guy, really a man from the ‘working class’. But Malachy in the film was a tiny, small and bony character, more like an ‘office-guy’. Something, which was a pity I think, is that a lot of characters got a very small role in the film although they are quite important to the story. Some examples are aunt Maggy and grandma which have a bigger role in the book and deserve one in the film I think because they are interesting characters. There were two important things missing in the film. In fact, they weren’t really ‘missing’ but they were cut to a small piece of a minute or two while they were very important in the book. It were the deaths of the twins and Margaret, and the stay of Frank in the hospital. In the book it seems like that Margaret has lived for about two weeks or something like that, and you get to know a lot about that father really loves her and that she means everything to
him. In the film you only see that she’s born and about three days later she dead already, and the father doesn’t show real emotions. Also it isn’t really made clear in the film why Eugene died, in the book it is made clear. Frank stayed about three months in the hospital when he had typhus and there he built up a good relationship with the handyman, he met a girl who lent him books and who died of a serious disease which made deep impression on Frankie, and he was placed to another room because he was naughty. In the film this all was cut to a very short piece, with only a flat description of the friendship between Frank and the handyman and nothing about the girl. I think this is a real pity because it was one of the most beautiful scenes from the book. The film was made in the same town as in the book, Limerick. The streets look exactly like how they are described in the book and maybe they are even the same streets. This could be possible because the story has happened in real, it’s an autobiography. The film gives a very detailed and realistic picture of the streets of Limerick, you can almost ‘feel’ how hard life must have been in this poor neighbourhood. In the book I think it is more difficult to imagine how Limerick must have looked like, the sentences which describe the streets and houses are in some way distanced or something. I preferred the book although I also liked the film. But the book made me laugh more and was more detailed than the film. The book was ‘lighter’ than the film. Also I found it really irritating that the movie was very dark, as if the daylight never reached Limerick.
Author: Frank McCourt
Brief summary: Frankie has Irish parents but lives in America, when his baby sister Margaret dies the family moves back to Ireland. The family looses another two children in Limerick. Frankies dad is an alcoholic and he’s unemployed. You follow the childhood of Frank. In the film, Frank is portrayed as a shy and pessimistic boy. Especially the ‘older’ Frank is shy, he doesn’t dare to come in the house of Teresa in the beginning and so on. Also he is very obeying in the film, the only time he doesn’t listen is when he is drunk and hits his mother. In the book however Frank is described as an optimist, someone who never gives up hope and someone who dares to tell his dad he’s useless and a failure. He isn’t shy in the book, he walks in the pubs of Limerick without knowing anybody there. Frank isn’t obeying in the book either, he gives his brother Malachy a bleeding nose in the play garden, steels fish and chips from a drunken man, etc. I think they have made Frank a weak boy in the film, and that’s not fair because in the book he’s strong and good young man. The father, Malachy, wasn’t the man I had in mind when I read the book either, but this was more a case of his looks. I expected a muscular and big guy, really a man from the ‘working class’. But Malachy in the film was a tiny, small and bony character, more like an ‘office-guy’. Something, which was a pity I think, is that a lot of characters got a very small role in the film although they are quite important to the story. Some examples are aunt Maggy and grandma which have a bigger role in the book and deserve one in the film I think because they are interesting characters. There were two important things missing in the film. In fact, they weren’t really ‘missing’ but they were cut to a small piece of a minute or two while they were very important in the book. It were the deaths of the twins and Margaret, and the stay of Frank in the hospital. In the book it seems like that Margaret has lived for about two weeks or something like that, and you get to know a lot about that father really loves her and that she means everything to
him. In the film you only see that she’s born and about three days later she dead already, and the father doesn’t show real emotions. Also it isn’t really made clear in the film why Eugene died, in the book it is made clear. Frank stayed about three months in the hospital when he had typhus and there he built up a good relationship with the handyman, he met a girl who lent him books and who died of a serious disease which made deep impression on Frankie, and he was placed to another room because he was naughty. In the film this all was cut to a very short piece, with only a flat description of the friendship between Frank and the handyman and nothing about the girl. I think this is a real pity because it was one of the most beautiful scenes from the book. The film was made in the same town as in the book, Limerick. The streets look exactly like how they are described in the book and maybe they are even the same streets. This could be possible because the story has happened in real, it’s an autobiography. The film gives a very detailed and realistic picture of the streets of Limerick, you can almost ‘feel’ how hard life must have been in this poor neighbourhood. In the book I think it is more difficult to imagine how Limerick must have looked like, the sentences which describe the streets and houses are in some way distanced or something. I preferred the book although I also liked the film. But the book made me laugh more and was more detailed than the film. The book was ‘lighter’ than the film. Also I found it really irritating that the movie was very dark, as if the daylight never reached Limerick.
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