Character Cards

Question 1

Mrs Johnstone Main character traits

Answer 1

-Superstitious
-Loving
-Hardworking
-Optimistic
-Religeous

Question 2

Quotes to show Mrs Johnstone is presented as hardworking/poor?

Answer 2

'’by the time I was 25 I looked 42’’
‘‘if I have the baby at the weekend I wont need any time off’’
Stage Directions: mop+bucket

Question 3

Quotes to show Mrs Johnstone presented as loving

Answer 3

'’I love the bones of every one of em’’
[song, my child]

Question 4

Quotes to show Mrs Johnstone is guilty for being poor

Answer 4

'’you’ve not had much of a life have y’’

Question 5

How is Mrs Johnstone presented as superstitious?

Answer 5

'’Shoes on the table’’

Question 6

How is Mrs Johnstone religious

Answer 6

When giving her son away she was made to swear on the bible by Mrs Lyons.

Question 7

Mrs Lyons main character traits

Answer 7

-Manipulative/Persuasive
-Later becomes superstitious
-Wealthy but unhappy
-Paranoid
-Desperate

Question 8

How is mrs lyons presented as paranoid?

Answer 8

'’you followed me’’
‘‘mad woman’’

Question 9

How is Mrs Lyons presented as desperate?

Answer 9

-She ‘dreamed’ of having a baby
-Getting the baby; commands
‘‘you wont tell anyone.’’
‘‘give one to me’’
-Desperately trying to be a good mother
-Tries to stab Mrs Johnstone

Question 10

How is Mrs Lyons superstitious?

Answer 10

• '’shoes on the table’’ initially uses this against Mrs J ‘‘they’ll die’’
  ‘‘if either twin learns that he was once a pair, they shall both immediately die.’’

Question 11

How is Mrs Lyons manipulative?

Answer 11

• Made Mrs L swear on the bible
• '’they’ll be put into care’’

Question 12

Narrator main character traits

Answer 12

-Judgemental
-Threatening
-Menacing

Question 13

How is the narrator Judgemental?

Answer 13

Judges Mrs J’s choices
‘‘Did y’never hear of the mother, so cruel’’
‘‘a stone in place of her heart’’

Question 14

How is the narrator threatening?

Answer 14

Using foreshadowing and tension ‘They’re gonna take your baby away’’

Question 15

How is the narrator menacing?

Answer 15

-Omniscient = willy Russel/ god/ society’s view =inner morals
-‘‘Devils got your number’’ = repeated to remind of consequences.
- ‘devil’ gets closer throughout the play

Question 16

The key Narrator quote

Answer 16

epilogue; ‘‘So do we blame superstition for what came to pass, or is this what we, the English, have come to know as class?’’

Question 17

Sammy main character traits

=Stereotypical lower class youth in 1980s

Answer 17

-Influential] bad influence
-manipulative
-selfish
-Lazy
-Trouble starter

Question 18

How is sammy a bad influence?

Answer 18

-Gun motif
- ‘‘i wish i was our sammy’’

Question 19

How is sammy manipulative?

Answer 19

'’what have y got’’
- tempting mickey

Question 20

How is sammy selfish?

Answer 20

• sammy uses mickey for crime then leaves him to get arsted when the cops show up

’’ sammy splits out the back. mickey remains crying.’’

Question 21

How is Sammy a victim of circumstances?

Answer 21

'’do we blame…come to know as class’’
-His lack of education and opportunities

Question 22

How is sammy lazy?

Answer 22

-Makes little effort to try and get a job/live a crime free life

Question 23

Linda main character traits

Answer 23

-stubborn
-determined
-flirtatious
-boistrous
-loving

Question 24

how is linda boistrous?

Answer 24

-sticks up for mickey ‘‘leave him alone you big worm’’

Question 25

How is linda flirtatious?

Answer 25

'’i love you mickey’’
‘‘im stuck’’