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Blood Brothers: Key Scenes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "And did you never hear how the Johnstones died,
        Not knowing they shared one name,
        Until the day they died?
        When their mother dried 'My own dear sons slain'"
    - - "So, did you hear the story of the Johnstone twins,
        As like each other as two new pins?
        Of one womb born on the selfsame day,
        How one was kept, and one given away?"
    - - Dreary
      - Ominous
      - Harrowing
  - - - "Then of course I found that
        I was six weeks overdue.
        We got married at the registry,
        And then we had a do."
      - "By the time that I was twenty-five,
        I looked like forty-two.
        With seven hungry mouths to feed,
        And one more nearly due."
    - - Lively
      - Turns sour/depressing
      - Upbeat
- - - - "I had it all worked out.
        We were just getting straight.
        With one more baby we could have managed,
        But with not two."
    - - "The welfare have been on to me.
        They say I'm incapable of controlling the kids I've already got.
        They say I should put some of them into care but I won't"
  - - - "Well Mrs. J, we bought such a large house,
        We expecting children might come along."
    - - "I'd keep him warm in the winter,
        And cool when it shines.
        I'd pull out his splinters,
        Without making him cry."
  - - - "And in the name of Jesus,
        The thing was done.
        Now there is no going back,
        for anyone."
    - - "Ain't no point in clutching at your rosary,
        You're always gonna know what was done.
        Even when you shut your eyes, you still see.
        That you sold your son, and you can't tell anyone"
- - - - Mrs. Lyons is choosing her son
        
        "You better see which one you want.
        No, don't tell me which one, just take him."
      - After the catalog reposes her items
        
        "Only for a time
        I must not learn to call him mine.
        Familiarise that face, those eyes.
        Make future plans that cannot be confirmed."
  - - - Mrs. Johnstone's superstition
        
        "You won't tell anyone about this, Mrs. Johnstone.
        Because if you do, you will kill them!"
        
        "They say that if either twin learns that they were once one of a pair,
        They shall both immediately die!
        That means, Mr.s Johnstone, that these brothers shall grow up
        Unaware of each other's existence."
      - Mrs. Lyon's superstition
        
        "I don't want her to hold the baby.
        He might catch something.
        Babies catch things very easily."
- - - - "We were born on the same day.
        That makes us blood brothers.
        Aw, do you wanna be me blood brother Eddie?"
      - "I will always defend my brother,
        And stand by him,
        And share all my sweet to him."
    - - Language
        
        "I want to but me ma won't let me"
        
        "Well my mummy doesn't let me play down here
      - Behaviour
        
        "Of course! Take as many as you want!"
        
        "Giz a sweet!"
        "You what?"
  - - - "Does your mother know you're down here?
        And what would she say if she did know?
        So don't you think you'd better go then before she finds out."
      - "Don't you ever come down here again! Ever!
        Now beat it, go on, before the boogeyman gets you!"
- - - - To avoid the Johnstones
      - After Eddie gets in trouble with the police
        
        "I'm not sure I'd let him mix with the likes of them in future.
        Make sure he keeps to his own kind, Mr. Lyons"
    - - Relocation by the council
      - A new begging for the family
        
        "We're leaving this mess,
        For our new address, 65 Stalmastale Lane."
        
        "Where we can begin again,
        Feel we can win and then,
        Live just like living should be.
        Got a new situation,
        A new destination.
        No reputation followin' me!"
    - - Determined
      - Ambitious
      - Hope-filled
  - - - "Eddie, would you like a picture of Mickey
        So you can remember him."
    - - "No kids out on the street today
        You could be living on the moon
        Maybe everybody's packed their bags and moved away
        On this long, long, long Sunday afternoon"
    - - Empty
      - Heart-breaking
      - Depressing
- - - - "You shall not have my locket!"
    - - "You can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut."
  - - - "Well maybe if I was looking for a job in an African restaurant"
  - - - "Leave him alone you big worm"
- - - - "Just look at his hair."
        "His hair's dark and wavy,
        Mine's mousy and fair."
        "Mine's the colour of gravy."
    - - "Giz a ciggy!"
        "I don't smoke actually, but I can darn get one."
        "Are you soft?"