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Setting and Props GapFill
You must fill all the gaps before clicking ‘Check Answers!’ This quiz focuses on AO1 (Read, understand and respond to texts) and AO3 (Discuss the context of texts).
Blood Brothers was published in and is set in in the .
The two families, the Johnstones and the Lyons, show us how two different sides of society live: Mrs Johnstone is a struggling single parent with seven children, not counting the twins; on the other hand, the Lyons are couple who live in relative comfort. It is the different lifestyle that Mrs Lyons has that confirms to Mrs Johnstone that her baby will be better off with the Lyons, 'Looking up in awe at the comparative opulence and of the place'.
Willy Russell uses moving to the as a symbol of hope for a better life for Mrs Johnstone and for Mrs Lyons. Initially, Mrs Johnstone is shown to be much happier after her fresh start; however, Willy Russell suggests that the struggles Mrs Lyons has with are not so easily fixed.