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The
'Troubles' in the novel
Politicial: IRA gives up violence but is going to
keep their guns. UVF kills people. 200 teenagers are beaten up with
baseball bats by unofficial policemen. Fountain Street bombing
unexpected and cruel. Over 20 people killed, several more injured. Individual:
Max: Her father was shot dead after stepping out of the plane
at Belfast airport - an American newsman told that he'd been
executed because he was too good at his job to negotiate peace. Jake:
He has trouble with several political ativists. He calls Shague
Ghintoss a "Nazi - Poet" and injures Gerry, a "Just
Us" member. Jake is also threatened by his former
workmates, Crab and Hally. They send him a package with ball
bearings as a replacement for rifle bullets and a photograph of Matt
and Mami's house. Chuckie:
Has a strange discussion on TV
with Jimmy Eve. Roche:
gets regularly beaten up by his dad and his mother doesn't seem to
care - Is beaten up by IRA men with a
baseball bat after breaking into a car and urinating on the driver's
seat. Peggy: Suffers
from shock after having seen the victims of Fountain Street bombing.
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