My Name Is Leon Flashcards

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Devlin sad

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‘Always my fault, always will be my fault. Forever. Amen.’

‘Photographs of boys, lots of them; dozens.’ ( Midjudgement )

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Leon sad

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‘Everyone steals from me’ ( thinks it’s normal because he has been stolen from ) SAD

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Maureen

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Happiness

Maureen’s hair ‘glows like a halo’ and she has a ‘golden biscuit tin’

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Happiness Leon

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‘ [ The Allotments are ] better than the park because everyone has their own bit of land to look after and they can do what they like with it’

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Violence Leon

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‘The end of the pen is like a little metal knife’ which leon imagines stabbing through the ‘soft bit of earring’s eye and writing i fucking hate you. Black Power. From Leon,’

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Castro violence

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‘Spit comes out of his mouth like a wild dog.’ ‘Leave him! Leave him! He can’t breathe!’ - Police Brutality

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Tufty admiration

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‘Like a hulk’ ‘He’s a warrior’

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Tufty happiness

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‘The sun is a healer’

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Tufty knowledge

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‘We are the consequences of history. We are the warriors you made,’ ‘We have dignity and worth.’

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Tufty violence (stereotype)

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‘It’s a protest. Except we don’t bomb people in their beds like you irish people.’ Stereotype for the IRA

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