consider the following quote from Angela's Ashes In answer the question that follow when I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived. It was of course a miserable childhood but happy childhood is hardly worth your while where's in the ordinary miserable childhood is a miserable Iris childhood and where Santa is a miserable Irish Catholic childhood nothing compared with the Irish version of the poverty the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father at the pios defeated mother money by the fire pump has his bullying School Masters and the English and the terrible things you did to us for 800 long years what seems to be the author's purpose in this passage if you were to write your own memory what would be the tone and purpose of it