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Scene and QuoteTheme(s) and meaning1Lucia controls her sobs (she’s won)2R: One thing to play around with them, so long as you marry your own kind.4R: What’s it got to do with us…no even our own country.5B: My da’ll no let us go to the dancing…says lassies just cheapen themselves.6L: If I want something I just – cry.7R: God forgive me…but I think since she lost her daddy she’s just using that to make Franco feel sorry for her.R: We’re Italian, we just live here.R: Who does your auntie Rosinella love best in the whole wide world?______________________________________________________________________________8F: [to R.] It’s got nothing to do with you either F: I was born here. That makes me British.______________________________________9B: Now you’re going away.10R: Somebody’s put him up to this…R: So what? We just live here.R: Who else is prepared t work till eleven o’clock every night?(In background Hughie is working away)____________________________________________________________________________11R: I’ve to laugh at you girls. You never give up, do you?R: You’re not the first and you’ll not be the last. R: [About F.] Saying things he doesn’t mean, making promises he can’t keep.____________________________________________________________________________12M: [when arrested] I’m a…Tally.13L: [as a teacher] Little SCOTTISH boys and girls. I think they deserve some of the teacher’s time too.14M. uses past tense to describe his dad in this memorable Arandora Star monologue.15L: I’m your ginger sister.H: And I’m your ginger-brother.L: For ever.H: And ever.16R: I wonder why he sent it to you? … It must be because he knows I cannae read.17R: I’ll give you a wedding like nobody here has ever seen before.End of Act One.1Luigi wants all Massimo can give him in this scene.2L: I’ll just cry.______________________________________R: If he’s who you want, then it’s not for me to stand in your way.______________________________________R: Nobody loves their families like the Italians.______________________________________R: My Lucia’s to marry a man that really loves HER…______________________________________R: It’s because I love you I want the best for you.______________________________________Hughie (in background) working hard.R: Italians…they’re prepared to WORK.______________________________________R: It’s up to me to see everything… she’s [L.] to marry an Italian.______________________________________R: Are you forgetting what this country did to the Italians? …I’ll never get over it.2__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3Bridget gives her opinion on Rosinella.H: I’ll not hear a word against the Pedreschis…they’ve treated me like one of the family.4B. wants H. to tell L. how he feels while he still can.5M: It would be nice to sit and read a book now and then.6L: You’ve changed, Auntie Rosinella._____________________________________R: I’ve loved her enough for two mammies.______________________________________7Parallels with childhood Lucia and Hughie when they talk to each other.8Lucia goes to Italy, H. just misses a final goodbye.9: The Turning Point – a Key SceneR: Who does he think he is…as if he were one of the family?_____________________________________B: [to R.] I never knew the lengths you’d go to…you told me Franco didn’t love me…just a wee Scottish tart to practise on…Franco loved me.____________________________________R: [discussing L.] She’s like the child I could never have.B: What about the child I never had? I was pregnant, and it was Franco’s baby.____________________________________M: You really don’t care for anyone else’s pain, do you? To hell with everything…except what YOU want.______________________________________M: You love her that much you don’t want her to love anyone else. ................
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