To start off this blog my day was very tiring, I woke up very tired, I came to school half asleep, and when I got home I just couldn't wait to take a nap. When we played basketball in the gym for points, I made 4 3pointer shots, I was pretty happy with what I got and our team won twice. So after my nap I went to the library to volunteer, I started reading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and the librarian came up to me and tells me 'did you know he just died?' I was so shocked, he died this monday, the day I checked the book out...
Big coincidence, and I felt very bad, reading about how his childhood was and to just find out he just died made me feel so bad when I was reading his book. (For all of you readers who had Ms. Whitmore, you should know what book I'm talking about.) So Angela's Ashes is a autobiography of Frank's tragic childhood in Ireland and after reading just the first 30 pages of it, I was captivated by the book's use of grammer and interesting facts. Like the way he wrote the book sounds as if a professional child is telling you his story, not as if an adult was. And how his mother was born between New Year's eve and New Years, on new year's eve the head came out and then at the strike of midnight on New Years day, so did the rest of the body, so they didn't know exactly which day her birthday was. I found that fact very interesting and humerous. He died July 19th 2009 of Melanoma. Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes which are found predominantly in skin but also in the bowel and eye. Malignant melanoma is a serious type of skin cancer. It is due to uncontrolled growth of pigment cells, called melanocytes. I'm glad he got to live to 79 before he died and I hope he rests in peace.
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