'Angela's Ashes' By Frank Mccourt

People read countless stories that have a variety of themes in them. When people read “Angela's Ashes” by Frank McCourt, and “The Street” by Ann Petry, they can probably sense that there is something similar among the two stories, and that's because they share a common theme. The theme is how people can persevere through problems that they encounter. The reader will discover this similar theme of persevering through problems by the way the authors utilizes the character of characters feelings and personality, the way setting creates a backdrop that establishes the tone of the story, and events that cause conflict to the character.

First and foremost, the authors McCourt and Petry uses the character to enhance the development of the theme

The setting in "Angela's Ashes" is in February, the town's weather is cold, and the people need to keep warm. "The Street" has the same setting tone as "Angela's Ashes", it has cold weather in the town, and the people keep warm. The author from the story "Angela's Ashes" expresses the setting tone by using this quote, " I put on my shoes and run quickly through the streets of Limerick to keep myself warm against the February frost. You can look in people's windows and see how cozy it is in their kitchens with fires glowing" (McCourt). This illustrates that the setting is cold in the town, and how people combat this is by keeping warm by the fire or running to create heat. The setting causes a problem for the people because the weather is cold and the people persevere through this by finding ways to keep warm. In "The Street" the same tone setting applies. This quote demonstrates the similar tone setting, " There was a cold November wind blowing... few hurried pedestrians who bent double in an effort to offer the least possible exposed surface to its violent assault" (Petry). Certainly, this quote is explaining is that the town is cold and people try to stay warm by not being in the weather. The weather imposes a problem for the people of the town, but they persevere through it by staying out of the cold by staying inside warm buildings. In other words, the

The events in "Angela's Ashes" reveal that the main character is struggling with the weather, his family, and hunger. "The Street" deals with struggles as well, like the horrible wind, the cold weather, and the struggle for Lutie to read a sign that was hanging off of a building. In "Angela's Ashes" the author emphasizes events using this quote, " But there's no money in the house, not even for bread in the morning... There's a cold sun coming through the window and I'm sure it must be warmer outside" (McCourt). This quote clarifies the events the main character, Francis, deals with. Francis has to get food for his family somehow with no money, he has to somehow keep warm inside his house. Those are the events Francis has to struggle with, and he somehow ends up persevering through them. "The Street" is similar to how the main character perseveres through her struggles. This quote explains how the character perseveres through struggles as well, "She shivered as the cold fingers of the wind touched the back of her neck... The wind held [the sign] still for an instant... She read it rapidly" (Petry). Lutie has to deal with the horrible wind, the cold weather, and the struggle of reading a sign that can barely hold still for a moment. She deals with these events and perseveres through them by standing still until