Social Injustice

Social justice and equity open doors and provides opportunities for everyone no matter what color, race, or class. However, not everyone sees eye to eye and some suffer from injustice and inequity. “The most surprising call came on April 7, 1997, when McCourt learned that Angela's Ashes had received America's most coveted literary award: the Pulitzer Prize." Social justice prevailed for Frank McCourt in “The Education of Frank McCourt” when he decided to work hard for his rights. Eventually McCourt labored through these battles and rose above earning the equality he deserved.

The Irish are acknowledged to have a long history of injustice and inequity such as hunger, lack of economic and social opportunities, and political and religious repression. In “Home For the Heart” life was especially difficult for Catholics because of the penal codes which banned them from land purchase and regulated inheritance. “These landlords used eviction to improve their lands, increase pasture size and to punish their tenants for political activity.” This act continued corroding the general conditions leaving countless numbers of people homeless in Ireland. Despite the fact that Catholic farmers and the people of Ireland in general did not receive social justice or equity, they later triumphed; their fortitude and hearty dauntlessness gaining them equality.

Growing up as a young Irish boy equal opportunity and equity was not commonly practiced which led to extreme poverty and limited rights for Frank McCourt. In "The Education of Frank McCourt" by Barbara Sande Dimmitt, she writes about the inspiring story of how Frank McCourt came from inequality and severe poverty to an acclaimed, award winning author. Although McCourt was forced to quit school at the ripe age of fourteen, he had enduring perseverance to get an education to support his family as well as himself in the future. "Still, he read whatever