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Although there are thousands of millions of books in the world, with billions of styles and themes, most of the time the purpose of a book is to have an impact on the reader, either through their characters, their writing or the historical context in which this was done. Angela's Ashes is a text written by the author Frank McCourt as an autobiography, it chronicles the life of the author from his miserable childhood years to his adulthood. Throughout this story the narrator shows how the historical context of 1930´s has an impact on characters live, he indicates the influence of economy on the quality of life of people living in United States and in Ireland at that age, thanks to this information and a profound research of this topic, readers can make a complex analysis of the differences and similarities that had this two places at this time and which nation offered a best a better life.

In my opinion McCourt´s family made a good decision by returning back to Ireland, although at the first part of the book the narrator says the opposite of this idea: “My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.” I think this was the right decision because even though neither country had a good economic situation at the time, that in one or another way affected the daily life of people, their actions and their relationship with society, United States was living a worst situation with the great depression different from Ireland.
At that time more the specifically the 24th of October of 1929, date remembered as the black Thursday, the economic crisis hit United States, that day was the first sinking of the main stock exchange in the world. This led to the ruin of the producers of raw materia...

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...rney, Co. Kerry. IRELAND IN THE 1930S - 1940S. Muckross Research Library, Muckross House. Ireland. http://www.muckross-house.ie/library-ireland-1930s-1940s.html
• Jamie Wilson. La vida durante la gran depresión. EHow. Recovered from http://www.ehowenespanol.com/vida-durante-gran-depresion-sobre_135238/ McCourt, F. (1996). Angela´s Ashes. Scribner. New York, United States.
Killarney, Co. Kerry. IRELAND IN THE 1930S - 1940S. Muckross Research Library, Muckross House. Ireland. http://www.muckross-house.ie/library-ireland-1930s-1940s.html
Killarney, Co. Kerry. IRELAND IN THE 1930S - 1940S. Muckross Research Library, Muckross House. Ireland. http://www.muckross-house.ie/library-ireland-1930s-1940s.html Reinhardt, C Ganzel, B. (2003). Farming in the 1930´s. Ganzel group. York Nebraska. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/farminginthe1930s.html

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