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Type the correct answers into the spaces. Fill all the spaces before clicking ‘Check Answers!’ This quiz focuses on AO1 (Read, understand and respond to texts).
Blood Brothers is about two families: the family and the family. The families are linked by twins called and Edward.
lives with his mother and a number of brothers and sisters. Life isn't easy for the Johnstones and the children are often hungry. Mickey's older brother, , often gets into trouble and is the reason Mickey is sent to prison. It is during this time in prison that Mickey starts taking antidepressants, which he struggles to stop taking after he is released.
lives with his parents. The Lyons family are reasonably well-off. Edward goes to boarding school and then to university. It is Edward's father, Mr Lyons, who makes Mickey redundant from his job at the cardboard box factory. Being out of work and unable to find another job is one reason Mickey accepts Sammy's offer of money to be lookout during the robbery.
is Mickey's friend as a child. Later, she becomes his girlfriend. After finding out that Linda is pregnant, Mickey proposes to her and they get married. and have an affair, which is the catalyst for the violence at the end of the play.
The comments on what is happening in the play, explaining things to the audience and judging the characters. They also play minor roles, such as the Milkman. At the end of the play, the narrator asks whether superstition or social class was to blame for the deaths of Mickey and Edward.