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Blood BrothersBegin by reading the question and identifying the key focus for the response. This could either be plot related to about a setting, a character or a theme.Consider firstly, why this plot detail, setting, character or theme is so important within the play?
Characters in Blood BrothersMickey Edward Mrs
JohnstoneMrs Lyons Linda Sammy Narrator
Settings in Blood BrothersLiverpool The Johnstone’s
houseThe Lyon’s house Skelmersdale
Themes in Blood BrothersClass Fate and superstition
Nature vs nurture Parents and children
Growing up Friendship and brotherhood
Identify a minimum of three examples from across the whole play (ideally one from the beginning, one from the middle and one from the end) where this plot detail, setting, character or theme plays a significant part.Can you remember a quote to support each example? (Even if it is just a word!)How does your contextual understanding support the examples you have identified?
ContextWilly Russell and his background growing up
Liverpool and the docks
Recession and effect on employment
Family life: nuclear family the norm, divorce less common
Class system: working class and middle class
Margaret Thatcher: shutting down of the docks, stopping of the milk
New TownSkelmersdale – new start?
Youth culture: Z Cars, Western,
Marilyn Monroe
Remember the structure of your response – using the mentor level 4 response to the rightIntroduction What is significant about the plot detail, the setting, character or
theme?Example 1 Point, evidence/example, explanation, link to context and importance
of example to the rest of the play.Example 2 Point, evidence/example, explanation, link to context and importance
of example to the rest of the play.Example 3 Point, evidence/example, explanation, link to context and importance
of example to the rest of the play.Continue to use the structure above until you run out of examples!
Conclusion Reinforce the importance of theme across the play with examples used in response.
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