Blood Brothers Review.

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Blood Brothers tells the story of the Johnstone twins, Mickey and Eddie, brothers separated at birth who reunite and become friends in their childhood, unaware of their relation to each other or of the consequences their relationship will bring about. The twin’s families that they go to are off two very different social statuses. Blood Brothers was at first a book by Willy Russell and then was transferred to a play in 1983. The two children where brought up by two very different families of very different social backgrounds this therefor meant they were treated by society in a very different way and where expected to behave in a different way too. For example Mickey was a lot more mischievous and was also accused of things he hadn’t necessarily done because of his family’s low social status and because it was what people expected of him. And Eddie could get away with a lot more because who he was and his family’s higher socially status and higher reputation in society. Mickey gets a lot more involved in crime because he grows up surrounded in people committing crime and people expect him to behave like that and if he doesn’t he will get accused anyway so he chooses to commit crime. It is also a lot easy for Mickey to become involved with crime because of his friends and brothers who were already linked with crime and he lived in an area where crime rates where height. Eddies life was effect more by superstitions because that’s what his mother believed in so he became accustomed to this kind of behaviour this is also because in Mickey’s life his mum is more focused on stopping him from committing crime and there are maybe more important things to worry about than superstations for Mickey’s family. Loyalty and trust was a large part in both the brothers’ lives because even though Mickey did not have much trust from the people within society but he did have a
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