Poverty In Angela's Ashes And The Street

-Intro A common theme of Angela's Ashes and The Street is that everybody struggles, but we must be strong. Through the use of characterization, both authors show the reader real problems and they teach the lesson to perssevere. The characters in Angela's Ashes are faced with poverty, but if they don't stay strong, they could die. The character in The Street is faced with not being able to find a home. She is faced with cold. Therefore, Frank McCourt and Ann Petry both use characters, setting, and events to establish the theme of persistance.
-Character
In Angela's Ashes it says, "Mam sits by the fire, shivering, and we know something is wrong when she makes no move for a cigarette. She says she feels a cold coming and she'd love to have

The household cannot afford society's riches, so the character feels greed. The setting plays into effect this way.
In The Street it says, "Even with the wind twisting the sign away from her, she could see that it had been there for a long time because its original coat of white paint was streaked with rust where years of rain and snow had finally eaten the paint off down to the metal..." Even with the perseverence of finding a place to warm up, the protagonist of the story is faced with a solution, yet still a small problem. The character, even though not in the most decent of places, has found safety from the cold of the November wind.
-Conclusion
In conclusion, Frank McCourt and Anne Petry both establish the theme of persistance through hard struggles. In Angela's Ashes, the protagonist is forced to fend for himself and his family. In The Street, the protagonist and the people of Harlem struggle to find protection against the cold wind. Both support the idea to keep fighting through hard times. And in the end, that message relays to the reader by telling him/her to keep fighting in times of