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Generation Gap - Coggle Diagram
Generation Gap
Act One
"(reproachfully) Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things - "
"What an expression, Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days"
"Last month, just because the miners came out on strike, there's a lot of wild talk about possible labor trouble in the future. Don't worry. We've passed the worst of it"
"Some people say that war's inevitable. And to that I say - fiddlesticks! [...] And I say there isn't a chance of war"
"Just let me finish, Eric. You've alot to learn yet"
"Now you three young people, just listen to this - and remember what I'm telling you now".
"But you youngsters, just remember what I said"
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"Yes, you don't know what some of these boys get up to nowadays. More money to spend and time to spare then I had when I was Eric's age"
"I don't want to lecture you two young fellows again. But what so many of you don't seem to understand now, when things are so much easier, is that man has to make his own way"
"But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense [...] a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own"
"By Jove, yes. And as you were saying, Dad, a man has to look after himself - "
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"it's about time you learnt to face a few responsibilities. That's something this public-school-and-Varsity life you've had doesn't seem to teach you"
"I can't stop thinking about this girl - destroying herself so horribly - " In contrast with "yes, yes horrid business"
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Act Two
"I don't know what you're talking about" (to sheila) [...] I don't understand you" (to the inspector)
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"Yes I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case"
in response to this Mr Birling says "damned impudence" to which Sheila replies "Mother, she's just died a horrible death - don't forget"
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"Gerald knows what I mean, and you apparently don't"
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Act Three
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"Eric I'm absolutely ashamed of you". "Well, I don't blame you". "But don't forget I'm ashamed of you as well - yes both of you"
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regarding whether he was "really a police inspector" younger generation : doesn't "make a real difference". Older generation : "it matters a devil of a lot"
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"The money's not the important thing. it's what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters"
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"They're so damned exasperating. They just won't try to understand our position or to see the difference between a lot of stuff like this coming out in private and a downright public scandal"
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"I remember what he said, how he looked, and what he made me feel. fire and blood and anguish. And it frightens me the way you talk, and I can't listen to any more of it"
"Now look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke"
"Why, you hysterical young fool - get back - or I'll"