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Each single day tons of young Irishmen struggle for happiness and
love, trying to find a way that could make their former dreams and
wishes come true. This could either be an umemployed thirty year-old
guy sitting desperately and disenchanted in his miserable one-room
appartment or simply sensitive Jake who wonders what to do with his
life. Probably thousands of similar Irishmen ask themselves the same
question at the same time in the same city. But isn't it Belfast
that has sealed their fate? People might say it's a mid-life crisis
which they have to go through but still, they worry about what the
conflict has turned the city of Belfast into.
Some
of them use alcohol to flush away their sorrows. Chuckie is one of
those.
"He was tired from his
unaccustomed early waking and a day's fiscal planning in six
different bars. He had drunk too much cheap beer, bought by too
many people he didn't really know." (p.35)
Alcohol keeps them from planning a
more promising future. Although each and every one of them has to
cope with his own misery, they're all minor characters in the story
of Belfast.
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