Coping with poverty.

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COPING WITH POVERTY AND ITS CIRCUMSTANCES Manawaka, Canada and Limerick, Ireland are on separate sides of the earth, however, when the Great Depression took place, both counties were equally affected. Angela's Ashes and Stone Angel are novels written in the era of The Great Depression, and involve characters reminiscing on their childhood and the desperate circumstances they encountered involving their poverty-stricken families. Angela's Ashes is a genuine memoir by Frank McCourt and is in the …

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…their families. The wives improve the difficulties by sacrificing their standards of dignity and class. The children in Angela's Ashes are not concerned with right or wrong and will do anything that will be of benefit for the family, whereas the children in Stone Angel cannot assist in easing their poor family. Misfortune and poverty were the consequences of The Great Depression, consequently causing families, in both Limerick and Manawaka, to suffer the underprivileged outcome.