Task Four - Collage with Written Explanation
Written Explanation - It is this that will be assessed for wide reading.
This collage has three important aspects to it, which connect to my views with the text and the connections I made.
Firstly there is the barbed wire over the top. This shows the barrier that Kevin and Sadie have to cross to be together - it is dangerous and difficult - just like being Catholic and wanting to go out with a Protestant Girl - This makes me think how strongly they must have been connected - to try to overcome a barrier like this - and maybe it was foolish - after all, Mr Blake was killed by a fire bomb in his own home as a result of this. I had to wonder, is it really all right to risk others safety so you can spend time with a girl you like. Is it worth people being killed for this? I'm like Brede - practical - it would have been better if they'd have kept apart, like how Brede wanted them to when she visited Sadie, after Kevin was beaten up.
The barbed wire is over the main image - which is Cave Hill in Belfast. Kevin and Sadie go there when they first meet, and return there again when they can - and they can feel close to each other because they are far from the city, where the prejudice and violence is. In perfect world, they could be like this al the time - but they aren't in a perfect world - as the barbed wire over top shows - so, despite all there determination, it's impossible for them to be together in Belfast - which is why they go to London in the end. I thought this was a good choice - though it was sad they would have to leave there families to be together. Some battles are just too hard - and the costs are too high. Had they have stayed in Belfast, doubtless, more blood would have been shed. I would definitely do the same in Kevin's shoes - I'd want to get out, like he did, but want my family to be safe above all, and leaving is the best thing to make sure this happens.
The final important part of my image is the two pictures in the corner - one is of a bombed house, the other of soldiers searching a home. These show the daily reality of life in Belfast - how deep the division is, and how hard, and dangerous life was for people on all sides of the conflict. I was moved by the anger or Mr McCoy as his house was searched, and the shock of Sadie as Mrs McConkey's shop is bombed. Both sides of the divide suffer. It's really sad to think that the situation is so very hard to resolve - the views on each side seem so far from each other, that there seems no clear compromise Protestants, such as the Jacksons, will still want to be aligned with England, Catholics, such as the McCoys, to Ireland.
Firstly there is the barbed wire over the top. This shows the barrier that Kevin and Sadie have to cross to be together - it is dangerous and difficult - just like being Catholic and wanting to go out with a Protestant Girl - This makes me think how strongly they must have been connected - to try to overcome a barrier like this - and maybe it was foolish - after all, Mr Blake was killed by a fire bomb in his own home as a result of this. I had to wonder, is it really all right to risk others safety so you can spend time with a girl you like. Is it worth people being killed for this? I'm like Brede - practical - it would have been better if they'd have kept apart, like how Brede wanted them to when she visited Sadie, after Kevin was beaten up.
The barbed wire is over the main image - which is Cave Hill in Belfast. Kevin and Sadie go there when they first meet, and return there again when they can - and they can feel close to each other because they are far from the city, where the prejudice and violence is. In perfect world, they could be like this al the time - but they aren't in a perfect world - as the barbed wire over top shows - so, despite all there determination, it's impossible for them to be together in Belfast - which is why they go to London in the end. I thought this was a good choice - though it was sad they would have to leave there families to be together. Some battles are just too hard - and the costs are too high. Had they have stayed in Belfast, doubtless, more blood would have been shed. I would definitely do the same in Kevin's shoes - I'd want to get out, like he did, but want my family to be safe above all, and leaving is the best thing to make sure this happens.
The final important part of my image is the two pictures in the corner - one is of a bombed house, the other of soldiers searching a home. These show the daily reality of life in Belfast - how deep the division is, and how hard, and dangerous life was for people on all sides of the conflict. I was moved by the anger or Mr McCoy as his house was searched, and the shock of Sadie as Mrs McConkey's shop is bombed. Both sides of the divide suffer. It's really sad to think that the situation is so very hard to resolve - the views on each side seem so far from each other, that there seems no clear compromise Protestants, such as the Jacksons, will still want to be aligned with England, Catholics, such as the McCoys, to Ireland.