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Ed's Frustrations & Mrs Alexander - Quotations

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Ed's Frustrations and Mrs Alexander - Quotations

Key quotations from Part One:

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Confronts Mrs Gascoyne

  • “Getting a crap enough deal already”.
  • “Not going to take no for an answer”.
    • He is determined to help Christopher sit his Maths A-Level exam early.
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Confronts the investigation

  • “That man is evil” (speaking about Mr Shears).
  • “Stop this ridiculous bloody detective game”.
    • This scene marks the first moment in the play where Ed’s frustrations spill out into conflict with his son.
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Scene 3: astronaut description

  • “Give it a bit of a break”.
    • Ed interrupts Christopher’s description of why he would be a good astronaut.
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Christopher's wish

  • “There was no one else near” him for thousands of miles.
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Meeting with Mrs Alexander

  • Christopher does not “do chatting”.
  • Asks whether his mother and Mr Shears were “doing sex”.
  • Mrs Alexander's shock at Christopher's mother's death: “Oh my goodness. Oh, Christopher I am so, so sorry. I never realised”

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1Introduction & Context

2Form, Structure & Language

3Text Summary & Analysis

4Themes

5Recap: Main Quotes

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