Language Settings and Social Classes in Blood Brothers

Mickeys first line in the scene is "mother are you going to open the

bleeding door or what" he is only seven and is swearing already which

indicates that he could have had a rough upbringing and we already

know that the mother is not very well off. The mother replies

"Mickey?" questioning who it is Mickey then replies "whats up mam did

you think I was the rent man." the mother is obviously avoiding the

rent man due to financial struggle.

He explains how he has been playing cow boys and Indians which shows

he must not have many tows and has learnt to use his imagination. His

mother asks where had he been playing "not down the rough end I hope"

which shows she doesn't consider herself to be of a lower class. he

tells her he was up near the big houses she tells him how she doesn't

like him up there but she doesn't give him a reason he questions her

and she tells him to shut up which is a lower class word (lower

standard English) then they goon to talk about how his mum used to

work up there and she cuts the conversation short as if she doesn't

want to talk about it. Mickey then goes back out and starts to play

again then Mickey breaks in rhyme The poem is indicating that he wants

to be just like his brother he looks to him like the farther he never

had. The way he says the poem seems like he actually wants to be able

to spit in someone's eye form 20 yards he thinks its acceptable and it

seems like Sammy has been practicing. Sammy has a den which shows he

could be escaping the reality of his life. Sammy draws pornographic

pictures of ladies in the swimming pool which shows he is aware of sex

and the male and female anatomy. Mickey swears in the poem "bleeding"

again is the typical language because of his class and the area he is

living in. at the end he shoots an imaginary Sammy which could show

signs of jealousy or he could just be shooting Sammy as the

unfairness. The fact that in the poem Mickey mentions how Sammy is

allowed to play with matches and goes to bed late which shows that

there mother doesn't really have control over what her children do.

All the things Sammy did seemed acceptable by the young people in the

working class area.

Act 2 scene 2

Eddie approaches Mickey first in the scene confident and forth coming

and says "hellow" the w is elongating the vowel so he is using