Cal

Cal CAL By Bernard Mac Laverty Characters: 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 cal, marcella, very, crilly, doesn’t, shamie, love, ira, husband, because, attack, about, skeffington, library, later, house, time, job, friends, first, father, farm, works, protestant, one, murder, lives, life, know, feels, driver, catholic, been, woman, uvf, together, realize, real, protestants, police, mother, mortons, morton, marcella’s, lot, kill, isn’t, home, force, falls