Blog Post Week 5 Jebediah Pritchard

Angela's Ashes is a departure of sorts from Dubliners. The style of Dubliners is harder to grasp, to gain a firm hold upon. Angela's Ashes , it seems to be an easier read. Well for some people. The short length of the stories in Dubliners, while themselves multi layered, were more towards my liking. Angela's Ashes is descriptive and well written, though the length is a source of contention for me, personally. Angela's Ashes is hard and sad and rough hwuen. Not that Dubliners was not , just the two books approach me with a different gesture.

There is a scene where the father wakes the boy up and says we will pay them a nickel for everyone who promises to die for Ireland. This is a distributing scene. Malachy senior then sings a song, about Canada. A land that England had gained through conquest as a colony. Ireland, was wholly part of the Crown at that time, though the troops deployed to fight in the New World , especially in Canada were mostly British, especially English. Malachy is singing and praising a new land, Canada and relating to his own, though it is not Ireland's land ,nor was it ever. Canada was always British and the analogy he uses with Canada for his sons to die for Ireland is wrought in folly. As in so common throughout this book and similar Irish propaganda, is to say they hate England, while seeking after the fruits of English labour.