Slab boys Quotes Flashcards
Curry questioning Phil’s diarrhoea
There were men in my platoon fighting the Japanese with dysentery.
Try’s to reminisce about his time in the wars - Generational Divide, Curry and Phil
(Pg5)
Phil on what school Alan went to
Place is crawling with masons.
Phil believes him and Spanky’s Catholicism is holding them back in the slab room - Religious divide, Amibition
Pg7
Hector not associating his schooling with Phil and Spanky.
I went to Johnstone High… I’m not a bloody Pape!
Hector refuses to lump himself in with these two as going to a Catholic School, another example of him distancing from the two boys - Hector and Phil/ Spanky, Religious divide
(Pg8)
Phil looking for reassurance from Spanky about his mother.
D’you think going off your head’s catching?
Phil doesn’t fully understand his mother’s condition and is scared if it is contagious- Mental health, Phil and Spanky, Phil’s vulnerability.
(Pg9)
Hector retaliates to Phil a bit too far
Not like lunacy…
Hector crosses the line as the insults Phil’s mentally troubled mother - Mental Health, Hectors confidence, Phil and Hector.
(Pg13)
Alan tries to defend Hector
Don’t let them bully you. Your clothes are perfectly all right.
Alan tries to reassure Hector he is fine and they are just bullies, but this backfires as the two boys turn their attention to him - Alan and Hector, Alan and Phil tension, Bullying
(Pg16)
Spanky gives Alan a little insight of Phil’s personality.
What does Phil do anything for? Laughs, of course.
Spanky confirms to Alan Phil has always been like this and things around him has held him back from everything, but in this case it’s his highers - Phil’s self-inflicted wounds, Ambition.
(Pg18)
Spanky advises Alan to put the drawings away.
If he catches you going through his stuff he’ll break your jaw.
Spanky describes Phil in quite a threatening way warning him Phil has a temper Alan doesn’t want to test - Phil’s anger, Spanky and Alan, Ambition
(Pg 20)
Curry finds Phil’s art folio
So you were up collecting this little lot, were you?
Curry puts 2 and 2 together as he confronts Phil for his drawing dismissing them as a ‘little lot’ - Curry and Phil, Ambition
(Pg21)
Spanky discovers the condition Phil left Hector in
You’re a bloody sadist, Phil.
Even Spanky thinks what Phil has done is too far as he has managed to harm him - Phil’s dark side, Phil and Spanky
(Pg24)
Phil and Jack’s argument causes a Phil to give his brutal opinion to Jack
Ach, pish, Jack! ‘Some of us take a pride in what we do’… You? You lot!
Phil rants at Jack informing him that he and the rest of the workplace are all ambition less and two faced - Ambition, Phil’s morales
(Pg26)
Alan when asked is forced into agreeing with the boys
It’s… er…
(PHIL threatens to snap pen.)
When Alan was about to save Hector from embarrassment, Phil intervenes to save his own back - Phil and Alan, Phil’s dark side
(Pg32)
Spanky has to warn Alan again about Phil’s temper
I wouldn’t do that Alfie… You don’t know what Phil’s like.
Spanky tries to stop Alan from helping Hector reminding him there’s a side of Phil Alan is still to see - Alan and Hector, Phil’s dark side
(Pg33)
Spanky informs Jack he can take Phil’s call
I’m authorised!
Spanky almost feels like he needs to validate the fact Phil has permitted him to go take this call for him - Phil and Spanky
(Pg36)
Phil rants at Alan about his mother
What do you know about getting up in the middle of the night in your shirt tail to say five decades of the rosary over your maw’s open wrists?
Phil really reveals what happens to him and that Alan doesn’t realise just how lucky he is - Mental health, Phil and Alan, Class Division
(Pg38)
