Aufgabe Vorschlag B1 – 1 · Abitur Hessen Englisch LK 2022

Outline what the reader learns about Frank McCourt's biography and the circumstances of his life in Ireland and the USA.

Lösung: Biography: born in New York, returns to Ireland at four, lives in poverty in Limerick, later emigrates to New York, works as a cleaner in a hotel. Ireland: miserable childhood, hunger, poverty, disease, alcoholic father, pious mother, church as refuge. USA: poverty despite rich land, eye infection, job cleaning hotel.