Across the Barricades
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1.Describe what happens when Linda comes to Sadie and Tommy's house. How do the different members of the Jackson family react at the news?
2.What is your impression of Linda? How does she look at the Catholics?
3.Tommy: What is his attitude to the Catholics? (Look for example at the conversation with the shopkeeper at the end).
4.What is it about him that grieves his father?
1.The McCoy family is supposed to be a rather typical Catholic family from Northern Ireland. What picture do we get of them and their situation?
2.Taking Mrs McCoy and Brede as examples, what picture do we get of the Catholic woman's situation?
3. What is Mr McCoy complaining about at the beginning of chapter 3?
4.Which activities and games are the children (Gerald, for example) involved in? What is Mr McCoy and his brother Albert's attitude to all that? What is Mrs McCoy and Brede's opinion concerning the fighting?
5.Brian Rafferty: Describe him. List the facts we get about him. Where does he stand in the conflict?
6.What kind of relationship exists between him and the children?