lamb setting quotes Flashcards

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Backdrop Ireland

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  • a “home originally represents a loving and caring atmosphere, contrasts to “The Home”
  • “angry men with vision…anger is justified”
    Michael “I don’t like their methods”
  • Church stance “we should not stand in their way” “we cannot mourn individuals”
  • “In Northern Ireland a girl of five had been shot dead in crossfire”
  • Ireland is killing its future, Benedict’s “kill and cure” motto
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theme of imprisonment

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  • the Home “was miles away from nowhere” with a “high wire fence which screamed and whistled” in the wind
  • treating a “twelve year old boy as a criminal”
  • London Underground “a maze of coloured lines”
  • football stadium “like a maze”
  • birds “seemed invisibly tied to the boat”
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The UK

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  • “he had heard things about London toilets” amusement arcades and sex shops
  • the squat’s sexual implications, dirty seedy corrupt moral values
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Michael’s upbringing

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  • his house “back to the hill” keeping a watchful eye on the threat of the world
  • his mum became injured and “the farm began to go down” showing injuries from violence stop growth and fertility, foreshadowing Ireland’s degeneration due to violence
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