Digital Extension Project Analysis

For the digital extension project, I chose to do Glogster for the final quarter. For the background photo, I chose a picture of the Ireland country side with stone walls and a few country houses to show where the majority of the story takes place. The other pictures I added on the poster was the book cover itself so that people would know what to look for in a library if they ever decided to read it. On the left side of the book cover, I added an image of a cloud and rain, since in the story, McCourt said that it was always wet in Ireland. On the right side of the book cover, there is a picture of a stone angel crying and ashes shaped like a cross above. The crying angel is a play on McCourt's mother whose name is Angela and she tended to cry often throughout the story. The crying angel also symbolizes the mother's suffering of trying to raise a family when her husband will provide little for them. There are two reasons why I chose the second picture. One reason is that religion is one of the factors of McCourt's childhood. McCourt was raised in a strict Irish Catholic environment where they took religion very seriously. The second reason is that ashes is connected to the title and the ashes that Angela stares into often in the book. Lastly, I added a four leaf clover on the left side of the character list as another symbol for Ireland, the setting of the book.
As for the text, I added the name and author at the top center of the poster. In addition, I added a quote to the side saying, "When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood[...]the miserable Irish Catholic childhood" - Frankie McCourt. Even though it was a short quote, I thought it was a good insight of what the readers should expect when reading this book. Lastly, at the bottom of the book cover I wrote, "It is not a happy story. It is a tale of poverty, alcoholism, death, and sorrows. But in the amidst of all this, there is one determined little boy." This sums up what the book is basically about in a few words.