Mr Devlin Key Quotations

Question 1

Devlins importance in the novel?

Answer 1

-acts as a sage-archetype

-his son was killed in a traffic accident by breaking rules, this explains why he is strict with rules in the rookery road allotments

-highlights the past can effect a personality

Question 2

‘Photographs of……’ what does this cause?

Answer 2

‘Photographs of boys, lots of them’

Causes the reader to feel concern for Leon and feel uncomfortable

Question 3

‘Stay away from……’

Answer 3

‘Stay away from that man. He don’t like black people unless they’re under sixteen’

Question 4

‘My fault………’

Answer 4

‘My fault, always will be my fault. For ever and ever, amen.’

Question 5

‘It’s a protest except……’

Answer 5

‘It’s a protest, except we don’t bomb people in their beds like you Irish people’

-xenophobic attitudes towards the Irish and stereotypes may link to kit de waal having Irish blood