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Written by Bernhard Mac Laverty

Written by Bernhard Mac Laverty. 3. 5. 1. 7. 2. 4. 6. 8. Cal Mc Cluskey. Shamie Mc Cluskey. Mrs. Morton with Lucy, Marcella ’s daughter. Marcella Morton. The police. The constellation of characters in the novel Cal. Crilly. Skeffington. father. helps them. IRA members.

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Written by Bernhard Mac Laverty

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  1. Written by Bernhard Mac Laverty

  2. 3 5 1 7 2 4 6 8

  3. Cal Mc Cluskey Shamie Mc Cluskey Mrs. Morton with Lucy, Marcella’s daughter. Marcella Morton The police The constellation of characters in the novel Cal Crilly Skeffington father helps them IRA members loves her afraid of Mother in law

  4. C. and S. contact Cal and need him as a driver Cal wants out of the IRA • Out of work • Catholic • likes playing the guitar • likes going to the library • drives for the IRA Content Lovestory Cal’s life Falls in love with Marcella in the library Threat in the letterbox Cal sells wood at the Morton’s farm hopes to get in touch with Marcella Cal is beaten up

  5. Content Cal is offered a job On the farm → harvester Cal helps C. to attack a shop Marcella persuades Cal to borrow a book Shamie’s house is burned down Cal lives in a cottage of the farm Marcella helps Cal to furnish the cottage. She falls in love, too. Shamie becomes sick and is taken to hospital

  6. Crilly Skeffington Mrs. Morton with Lucy, Marcella’s daughter. Changes in the constellation of characters

  7. What do we learn about the conflict in Northern Ireland? • »Nothing would happen in the daylight. They would not have the courage to be seen« (p.28) • Cal is beaten up by three guys in the evening. (p.38) • When Cal is in the bathroom: »What if someone were to burst into the bathroom now? How easy a target he would be, stark naked, blinded, groping with outstretched arms for a towel.« (p. 41) • »A siren heehaved its way through the town at speed. An old man looked up, then bent over his book again.« (p. 64) 8

  8. Why is the novel worth reading? • human interest story • lovestory • the reader learns a lot about the problems in Northern Ireland and especially the problems the people and youngsters are faced with • new is the connection of a love story with a youngster’s involvement into a terrorist group. 9

  9. Questions?

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