Blood Brothers mind map: Plot

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Blood brothers Plot.
- Act 1
  - Mrs Johnstone.
    - seven children despite being only 25,
    - Feel in love dancing, Marilyn Monroe
    - Looks much older
    - Twins more pressure from social to put kids into care
    - Vow of silence, swear on Bible
    - too attached to the twin she has given away.
    - leaves Lyons' house
  - Mrs Lyons
    - well off and live in a large house.
    - Lonely, husband is away
    - no children of their own
    - offers to bring up 1 of the twins
    - superstitious omen: she claims that if either twin learns of his brother, both will die.
  - Twins (7 yrs old)
    - Mickey is the twin that stayed with Mrs Johnstone
      - 'Cowboys & Indians' by big houses
    - Edward Lyons, the other twin, has seen Mickey playing and comes to find him.
    - Ed offers Mickey sweets
      - Edward is about to throw stones through some windows,
        Mrs Johnstone and warns her harshly that any more trouble from her children will mean a court visit.
        
        Mrs Lyons but chooses to explain away the trouble as merely a childish ‘prank’. He asks her to make sure Edward ‘keeps with his own kind’.
    - birthdays are identical and decide to become ‘blood brothers’. They nick their hands with Mickey’s penknife and clasp hands.
    - Edward not to mix with ‘boys like that’.
  - Linda
    - protects Mickey and tells the others to leave him alone.
    - Convince Ed to play with them.
- Act 2
  - Teenagers
    - both families moved to the same area, and the twins live near to each other,
    - although Sammy has been put on probation for causing a fire at his school
    - local comprehensive school
      - posh boarding school.
    - Mickey on bus with Linda, Sammy joins them tries to get cheap ticket
      - Bus driver refuses, threatens conductor
    - Linda tells Mickey she loves him, but only if he doesn’t become a criminal like his brother.
    - Mickey confides to Edward that hedoesn’t know how to tell Linda he loves her.
  - offers a large sum of money to bribe Mrs Johnstone to move away, but Mrs Johnstone rejects this
    - Mrs Lyons grabs a kitchen knife and tries to stab Mrs Johnstone, but Mrs Johnstone dodges it.
    - Sammy has killed the filling-station assistant
      - prison for seven years.
        Linda has found Mickey a job, but she won’t reveal to Mrs Johnstone who has arranged it for him.
        
        Addicted to the pills, Linda tries to get him off them.
        
        Councillor Eddie Lyons helps Linda & Mickey
        
        Edward meeting Linda and kissing her. Mickey is shown hard at work, trying desperately to avoid taking his tablets.
        Mrs Lyons enters and tells him that Edward and Linda are seeing each other
        becomes frenzied, rushes home and takes a gun
        Mickey approaches the stage pointing his gun at Edward. He blames Edward for taking Linda from him and even accuses him of fathering Linda’s child.
        
        reveal to him that Edward is actually his twin brother and that he was given away to Mrs Lyons.
        
        Mickey screams in anger at his mother, asking why she couldn’t have given him away,
        
        accidentally goes off and Edward is killed.
        
        Mickey shouts ‘No!’ at a waiting policemen, but the police shoot him.
  - write her letters, despite Mickey being in love with her.
    - . Linda reveals that Mickey still hasn’t asked her to be a proper girlfriend.
      - Mickey arrives and Edward urges him to declare his love for Linda.
  - Untit Mickey tells his mother that Linda is pregnant and they are marrying in a month. On the wedding day Mickey loses his jobled
  - Edward comes back from university for Christmas, well dressed and happy.
    - Mickey doesn’t share his happiness and explains that he has been out of work for three months. Edward doesn’t see the problem of living life ‘on the dole’
      - He feels they no longer have anything in common
    - look-out for his gang, Edward tries to convince Linda to marry him, not knowing about her wedding or pregnancy.

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