IND. READING-The Pub Life, Prompt #1, Chapter #3

The current chapter brought a bitter taste to my mouth. I disliked every event in this chapter; on exception of the new born baby, Michael McCourt. Malachy McCourt, Frank's father, believes that the now reduced 16 shillings a week should go to his family, and the money he at work should go to the pub. Malanchy Senior is off drinking at the pub while his wife and three children are sitting at home starving. The three childern get tourtured by words for how much poverty their family is in. The students make fun of them for only being able to afford a pig's head for Christmas dinner and wearing shoes their mother made them from old tires. Malachy Senior as no dignity in being the man in the McCourt family. Angela McCourt, Frank's mother, cries herself to sleep some nights because Malachy Senior comes home drunk singing Irish folk songs. At the end of the chapter Malachy Senior ended up losing his job. If the father really loves his children as much as he says he does, then why treat them like this and be so selfish.