Summarizer; Chapter 5 and 6

This chapter takes place within a three year time span, where Frank is seven, eight, and by the end of the chapter he is nine. Throughout the coarse of these years, Frank's mother makes Frank take up Irish dancing, and after the sentence where he mentions his age, he adds that his father is still out of work.

Also in this chapter, Angela wants Frank to become an Altar boy so that the Saint Vincet de Paul Society can see that they are good Catholics and give them more benefits. After Frank dresses up in the nicest clothes he has, and becoming the cleanest he can get he goes to the Church to become an Altar Boy only to be rejected because they are of lower status and because his father is from the North.

In chapter six Frank is now in fourth grade and has Mr. O'Neil as a teacher. Mr. O'Neil always brings an apple to class and peels it in front of the class as a tease, and gives the peels to the boy who is able to answer his hardest question. One day a particularly feminine boy, Fintan gets the apple peel and shares it with Frank and Paddy, which are grateful but embarrassed by this. Fintan later invites to boy over for lunch where they eat luxuriously; but the boys are scared of Fintan when he follows them to the bathroom and they think Fintan enjoys looking at them.

They are invited the next day, but are not given any food. As a result Paddy and Frank run to a nearby farm and drink milk straight from the cow's' utters, and steel apples from the trees. They are eventually chased out by farmers and Frank stays the night with Paddy's family, where Paddy's father is sick, and later dies that night. Frank is retrieved by his mother the next morning.

-Donna Wylie