Blood Brothers - Mickey

Question 1

Act 1 Page 18 ”your friends will never learn that once we were on easy terms”

Answer 1

Dramatic irony

Audience knows that Edward will learn who his real mother is

Question 2

Act 1 pg 31 - ”Mickey tries to snatch the gun from Sammy”

Answer 2

Stage direction and foreshadowing

As a child this is a toy gun, yet later he uses Sammy’s gun to kill Edward

Question 3

Act 1 pg 28 - “the two of them immediately wriggle and giggle with glee”

Answer 3

Stage direction

Visually demonstrates the bond between Mickey and Edward at 7

Question 4

Act 1 pg 29 -”don’t you know what a dictionary is?” and ”course I do … it’s a thingy innit…”

Answer 4

Contrast between their experience of education

Edward is well educated, Mickey never had a good education - societal gap

Question 5

Act 1 Page 19 ”Why can’t I have an air pistol?“

Answer 5

Foreshadowing death

First foreshadow of the theme of death through motif of guns

Undercurrent of violence

Innocent at first but becomes more sinister

Question 6

Act 1 Page 30 ”Do you want to be my blood brother, Eddie?“

Answer 6

dramatic irony

We know that they brothers, but they don’t

Question 7

Act 1 Page 32 ”Ma…Mam this is my brother.“

Answer 7

Dramatic irony

They are biological brothers but don’t realize yet

Question 8

Act 1 Page 35 ”Hi-ya Eddie. (…) Y’ comin’ out?“

Answer 8

Colloquial language

Reinforces the class divide between Mickey and Eddie

Question 9

Act 1 Page 43 ”we’ve been caught loads of times by a policeman … haven’t we Linda“

Answer 9

Foreshadowing

Their interactions with police as children is parallel to Mickey’s arrest & imprisonment later

Question 10

Act 1 Page 51 ”mickey unwraps a toy gun“

Answer 10

motif of guns via stage directions

Foreshadowing, the ending