Angela

« Next, Angela will take Frank to dance lesson, but after a few lesson, Frank spend the money to go to the cinema, and Angela discovered that Frank had been lying all this time so Malachy takes Frankie to the priest.

About Malachy, he decided that it was time for Frankie to become an altar boy, but because of their situation, Frankie is refused.

When Frank is now in the fourth class, he missed class and the teacher send a note to his parents.

Frank is afraid to go home and he gets to his friend Paddy.

Angela was very worried but finally, Frank won’t have any problem.

After that, Frank made his confirmation and has typhoid fever, and he almost died.

When he came back to school, he has to go in fourth class again, but only for a very short time because his teacher realize he is too intelligent to be in fourth class.

Malachy is still drinking a lot, but the English want Irishman to work in the factories while the Englishmen are fighting Hitler and so Malachy leaves, but he won’t send any money to his family as promise.

Frank spent a month in an eye hospital because he has sore eyes.

Angela became sick too and Frank has to steal to survive.

He is not a bad boy but it was the only solution to save his family.

Now we’re going to talk you about our chapter: A working man. The Mc Court family is still very poor(maison), Malachy don’t send money(bonhomme angleterre).

Mr.

Hannon(bonhomme à gauche de la maison) from next door got problems with his legs and it’s a big problem because he has to climb up and down all day to get the bags of coal.

He asks to Angela (bonhomme) if Frankie could help, he will pay him a shilling or two.

· A few days later, Frankie (bonhomme) began to work with Mr.

Hannon before going to school.

Frankie feels like a man because he has a shilling in his pocket and he has been working.

The boys from school (bonhomme) don’t laugh anymore at Frankie, because he has a job and they don’t.

Big boys are jealous, they think that they should have the job because Frankie is only eleven, but Frank doesn’t care.

Unfortunately,2) Mr.

Hannon’s sore legs get worse and he has to stop working.

· Dad (bonhomme irlande) comes back home for Christmas, he had sent a letter to say that now, everything will be different.

But when he arrived, he had just fight and he offers Angela a half empty box of chocolate.

4) The boys accuse their dad to have drunk all the money.

Dad refuse that his boys talk him like that and he says he had to see a man, but he came home drunk.

(toute famille maison) It’s Christmas.

The family has a sheep’s head for dinner.

Angela offers Malachy to take a bit but Malachy answers that he’ll eat the sheep’s eyes.

5) After that he takes his suitcase and leaves for England (bonhomme angleterre) because it’s a good day to travel, promising his wife he’ll write.

Angela doesn’t believe him. In this chapter, we insists a lot about the importance of going to school, because if you become clever, you have more possibilities to escape from Limerick, and maybe you’ll. »