lamb setting quotes

Question 1

Backdrop Ireland

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

theme of imprisonment

Answer 2

• 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”

Question 3

The UK

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Michael’s upbringing

Answer 4

• 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