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Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella. Cal is a haunting love story set against the fear and violence of Ulster, where tenderness and innocence must struggle to survive.
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Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella. "Cal" is a haunting love story set against the fear and violence of Ulster, where tenderness and innocence must struggle to survive.
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Das Buch ist eine sehr gute Aufarbeitung des Konflikts in Nordirland. Auch wenn es schon Anfang der 80er geschrieben wurde, ist es immer noch aktuell. Die Charaktere sind überzeugend dargestellt, die Geschichte ist plausibel und nachvollziehbar. Diese Ausgabe eignet sich besonders gut für den Unterricht in der Schule: neben einer Einführung und einer Chronologie der Ereignisse in Nordirland enthält das Buch einen umfangreichen Vokabelanhang mit Fragen zum Text, Zusammenfassungen der einzelnen Kapitel und Darstellungen der verschiedenen Charaktere. Sehr zu empfehlen!
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This book is about love and hate. Overall it's about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Cal is depressed and so is Marcella. Between the two grows a strange love affair. It was interesting to read but also rather complicated because of the Northern Conflict which I haven't understood until now. I'm not so impressed about the book but I don't regret reading it. I liked the ending because it is like in reality. There cannot only be love, peace and happiness as most novels seem to suggest.
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The book Cal written by Bernard Mac Laverty in 1983 is a story that describes the conflict in Northern Ireland from the perspective of Cal who falls in love with the widow of a Protestant he has helped to kill.
In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are fighting each other since Protestant settlers came to the island, especially in the Northern part of the land after a Catholic rebellion in the 17th century. When the Republic of Ireland was founded in 1921, the Protestants were afraid of losing power as a minority and decided that Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. Since that, Catholics of the IRA and Protestant militants are fighting each other to be able to decide on their countrys future although in recent times, there seems to be an appeasement in the conflict on the way.
But is there a possibility to give an overview of such a complex problem in a small book? The author tries it with his protagonist, Cal, who is disgusted by the violence and thus is the perfect character to show the misery of violent confrontations. His mother died young and he is not very close to his father, Shamie, with whom he lives together as the only Catholics in a Protestant area. He is very sensitive as it becomes obvious when he quits his job in an abattoir because of the carnage in there. In addition to his bad luck, his friend, Crilly, who always was a bully at school brings him into trouble and urges him to participate in the Cause (for the IRA). He has no chance to escape his membership because the leader of the rebels, Skeffington, threatens him. However, it does not help him to get rid of his bad conscience since he has helped Crilly to kill a Protestant police man. Accidentally, Cal meets the widow of the dead, Marcella, who does not know him but is so beautiful to him that he immediately falls in love with her. He finds a job at the farm of the parents-in-law of her and after the house of Cal and his father is burned down by Protestant he is allowed to live in cottage of them which he ostensibly enjoys as he can be near Marcella and can keep himself at distance from Crilly and Skeffington. In the moment, Marcella, who is an 8 year older mother of a little girl, begins an affair with him his past begins to haunt him again because he meets his former friends
There can be no better description of the Irish conflict than this book. The protagonist, whose view is presented to the reader, is very well-chosen relating his whole emotions and human reaction to these troubles. He has a very sensitive boy but he gets very difficult jobs like the one in the abattoir. Although he is deterred to violence he is forced into it. He loves the only woman he has caused the most terrible pain. With these juxtapositions, the author achieves not only to criticize violence from Catholics but also by Protestants even if it is difficult to write about it from a Catholic point of view.
All in one, this book is adorable because it has both an emotional and a mostly balanced view on the Irish conflict.
The book Cal written by Bernard Mac Laverty in 1983 is a story that describes the conflict in Northern Ireland from the perspective of Cal who falls in love with the widow of a Protestant he has helped to kill.
In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are fighting each other since Protestant settlers came to the island, especially in the Northern part of the land after a Catholic rebellion in the 17th century. When the Republic of Ireland was founded in 1921, the Protestants were afraid of losing power as a minority and decided that Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. Since that, Catholics of the IRA and Protestant militants are fighting each other to be able to decide on their countrys future although in recent times, there seems to be an appeasement in the conflict on the way.
But is there a possibility to give an overview of such a complex problem in a small book? The author tries it with his protagonist, Cal, who is disgusted by the violence and thus is the perfect character to show the misery of violent confrontations. His mother died young and he is not very close to his father, Shamie, with whom he lives together as the only Catholics in a Protestant area. He is very sensitive as it becomes obvious when he quits his job in an abattoir because of the carnage in there. In addition to his bad luck, his friend, Crilly, who always was a bully at school brings him into trouble and urges him to participate in the Cause (for the IRA). He has no chance to escape his membership because the leader of the rebels, Skeffington, threatens him. However, it does not help him to get rid of his bad conscience since he has helped Crilly to kill a Protestant police man. Accidentally, Cal meets the widow of the dead, Marcella, who does not know him but is so beautiful to him that he immediately falls in love with her. He finds a job at the farm of the parents-in-law of her and after the house of Cal and his father is burned down by Protestant he is allowed to live in cottage of them which he ostensibly enjoys as he can be near Marcella and can keep himself at distance from Crilly and Skeffington. In the moment, Marcella, who is an 8 year older mother of a little girl, begins an affair with him his past begins to haunt him again because he meets his former friends
There can be no better description of the Irish conflict than this book. The protagonist, whose view is presented to the reader, is very well-chosen relating his whole emotions and human reaction to these troubles. He has a very sensitive boy but he gets very difficult jobs like the one in the abattoir. Although he is deterred to violence he is forced into it. He loves the only woman he has caused the most terrible pain. With these juxtapositions, the author achieves not only to criticize violence from Catholics but also by Protestants even if it is difficult to write about it from a Catholic point of view.
All in one, this book is adorable because it has both an emotional and a mostly balanced view on the Irish conflict.
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