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Forbidden love and Societal effects - Coggle Diagram
Forbidden love and Societal effects
Societal Division
Crosses made to hate Noughts
Noughts made to hate Crosses
Employment
Could not make the same wage as Crosses
Callum lost hope he could have a better future due to this
Got kicked out of the school because of his fathers trial lost hope
Segregated school
4 Noughts in a school of all Crosses
Protests first day Callum goes to school and one of the Noughts hes with gets hurt
Callum could not speak his mind without being sent to the principals office
Callums friend gets slapped by one of the teacher and she gets kicked out
Prejudice
Noughts face discrimination from Crosses
Used to be their slaves
Leads to her eventual death (Suicide)
Noughts start Liberation Militia to rise up against this
mall incident occurs many die
Callums family brought to questioning, unjust legal system
Callum father by suicide (running into electric fence)
Callums father sentenced to death
Relationships
Callum's family works for Sephy's
Power imbalance between Sephy and Callum
Lynette faces violence because she is dating a cross while shes a Nought
Leads to the death of her boyfriend Jed
After the trauma she faced she is left to believe she is a cross
Her mental health improves but she does not like the reality of the world she lives in and kills herself
Sephy and Callum
Starts off as friendship turns to love quickly
Forbidden love
Difficult because of family, societal norms and beliefs
Have a baby together, Sephy takes McGregor as the abys last name to remember him by
Jasmine and Kamal
Kamal cheated and destroyed relationship
Wanted the wife to care for the bastard son as their own but she refused
Jasmine became an alcoholic, Kamal abused her
Toxic relationship
Ryan and Meggie
Meggie mad at Ryan for dragging Jude into the LM
Love eachother but there are complications
Identity
Lynette
Struggled to accept who she was (Nought)
Callum
Struggled feeling inferior to Sephy and Crosses alike
Joined LM because of his frustration with the oppressive system
Sephy
Could not accept that she was of higher status and could not reason with Callum
Became less naive
Moved to go to boarding school to leave the past behind
Found a way to support the Noughts without joining LM did protests and joined a group that supported that sentiment