Cal
Cal: He is a typical 19-year-old Irish boy. He has had a hard life because his mother died when he was 8. Now he is living together with his father Shamie. But the relation between them is not like a father and son relation, they are more like friends. Cal is a person you can persuade very easily and fast. He isn't very self-confident. His friends Crilly and Skeffington boss him around and Cal isn't very happy with this situation, but he doesn't know how to fight back. His friends are strictly catholic and they force him to join the IRA. He starts to become their driver when they commit crimes. Cal is looking for somebody, who loves him. He hasn't been given any real love since his mother died. Fortunately, he finds Marcella who is nine years his senior and he falls in love with her. He met her first in the library where Marcella works as a librarian. Cal starts going there regularly just to meet her. Finally, Marcella, who is more mature and who has already a daughter, falls in love with Cal, too. Cal is a very poor boy who doesn't have a lot of luck in his life. He thinks a lot and has many nightmares about the murder of Marcella's husband. He feels guilt about the murder of Marc
Cal is very frustrated but later they have sex together. Once Cal sells wood to the Mortons, a protestant family who have a farm. There are also other pepole who are important in Cal's life: Crilly, a schoolmate and not a real friend and Skeffington, a local IRA leader. Cal is a kind of present for Marcella he makes her feel younger and after some time they fall in love. They want to force the Mc Cluskeys to move away from the Protestant area but Cal says that he and his father Shamie will never leave. She lost her husband in an attack of the IRA. He couldn't stand the unpleasant smell there. Shamie is pigheaded, because he doesn't leave his house despite a threatening letter of the UVF. But Skeffington and Crilly threaten to kill him if he leaves the movement. He hears from a fireman that this was probably an attack by Protestants. ella's husband who was shot by one of Cal's friends when he was the driver. She is desperately looking for a job. Some time later Crilly meets Cal and tells him that they plan to blow up the library with a time bomb. Some days later Cal is offered a full-time job on the Morton farm. Crilly and Skefington are arrested after the attack.
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