Comparative

Question 1

Social class quotes

Answer 1

-Supervising and talking to some of the more well off parents (narrator about mother superior)
-From nothing (Townspeople about Bill)

-A bye-Child (Mena and Thoamsheen about Sive)
-You will have no enemy when you have the name of money (Mena to Sive)
-The talk of every crossroads (Liam about the marriage between Sean dota and sive)

-Get busy living or get busy dying (Andy)
-A little turd in prison greys (Red about Andy)
-It’s your world boss (Bogs to prison guard)

Question 2

Cultural context themes

Answer 2

Social class, Gender, Marriage and Love, Religion, Family

Question 3

Gender quotes

Answer 3

-One of the few women on earth who could do as she pleased (Eileen about Mrs. Wilson)
-Going out into the world of men (Bill about his daughters)

-I know what you’re after (Mike to Liam)
-She’s a girl and she’ll be a servant in the house (Mena about Sive)
-Tis the nature of a man (Nanna to Sive)
-Mena, wife of the man of the house (introduction)

-You eat when we say you eat (Hadley to prisoners)
-To keep his mind occupied (Red about Andy)
-Can you get her (Andy to Red)

Question 4

Love and Marriage quotes

Answer 4

-Stayed up talking at the fire at night (Narrator about Bills parents)
-None of ours will ever have to endure the likes of what them girls go through (Eileen to Bill)

-To make a home with a man, any man (Mena to Sive)
-He will never have a woman the way he’s going about it (Thomasheen about Liam)
-I will never marry such a man (Sive)

-Hard to get (Bogs about Andy)
-A love story between two men (Morgan Freeman about Andy and Red)
-I hope to see my friend and shake his hand (Red)

Question 5

Religion quotes

Answer 5

-Training school (narrator about laundry)
-A world of trouble (Bill)
-Call yourself a Christian (Furlong)

-Nothing in heaven or hell could move ye to see wrong (Liam to Mena and Mike)
-The hand of Jesus may strike you dead where you stand (Liam to Mena and Mike)

-Discipline and the bible (warden to prisoners)
-Dear warden, you were right, salvation lay within (Andy to warden)

Question 6

Family quotes

Answer 6

-Ugly names (narrator about Bill)
-Happier than when he first held his daughters (Bill)

-A common bye-child, a bastard (Mena about Sive)

-Goddamn kids pestering you to take ‘em for a ride all the time (Hadley)
-Under his wing (Red about Andy and Tommy)
-Really liked the kid (Red about Andy and Tommy)