Blog 3

Said by: Frank Mccourt
Page:22
Paragraph: 1
Question: What was the journey like coming to America

Quote: 1
"I can see myself in the mirror puting on the aftershave lotion and shaking my head at my self felling if this is the way it's going to be in America I'm sorry I ever left Ireland. It's hard enough coming here in the first place without preists criticizing you over your failure to hit off the rich kentucky Protestants, your ignorance of bath mats, the state of your underwear and your doudts about aftershave lotion."

Significance:
I think the qoute says it all becaues it explains every thing. By every thing I mean small parts of his journy to America. Like in one part of the qoute he says "preists criticizing you over your failure to hit off the rich kentucky Protestants" the way this relates to the questine is that. In one part of the book he is on a boat going to America and he meets a priest on the boat and the preist tells him to go talk to the rich protestants from kuntucky to get a job from them because this is a rare apertunity. But that's just one thing he menchened in this qoute there are many others like this one .
"your ignorance of bath mats, the state of your underwear and your doudts about aftershave lotion" in this part there at the hotal and there taking showers but when it's time for Franck McCourt to take a shower. He takes one but he gets out and the priest asks him how exaclty did you dry your self with out a towl. I think he responds by saying that he dryer him self with the mat that was in the shower. And the preist starts to lagthf becuase he dosent now anything about America. And then the preist starts to shave and frank McCourt asks him what is that your outing on your face and he says shaving cream. My point is that it was hard coming to America because it's completly diffrent from Ireland.

Connection.
I honestly don't think I can connect to this qoute becusae I'm already in America and I never had any problems going to a new country/place. Becuase usaly my mom knows what to do already. But once I had gone to a place in San Diego I had never Been to even though I had heard so many things about it and it was hard to get there and imagine if it was hard for me to get some where in San Diego my own home town how it must have been for Franck McCourt.

Question for group: if you have gone to a strange place/country how was it going there. (Were the people nice or mean there).

Question Number 6: How do the characters maintain their cultural ties to their homeland while living in America

Significance:
I don't have a qoute for this one because he really dosent explan how he trys to muntan his culture. I guess one way he trys is that he always gose to Irish dances and he usaly gose with a freind because he is to nurvise to ask a girl to dance. He also goses to Irish bars so those are ways he trys to keep his coltture. Currintly I'm on page 194 and in this pate he's with his freands in a dance and he asks dolorce to dance and she's irish. There's many ways he shows that he trys to keep his culture but he dosnt explain how he dose.

Connection:
I didnt have a qoute but I can connetcet to the qouestion becuase I don't try to keep my culture. But I em enterested in it I like travling to diffrent place in Mexico to find out things but it uselu comes to me. So this hard.
Question for grouph: how do you think that frank McCourt keeps his culture.


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