Sailmaker PRELIM

Question 1

Grief

x4

Answer 1

• Ah’ve got a bit of bad news for ye son… Yet mammy’s dead
• Ah’ll make a cuppa tea
• I was standing there, crying… Real, big, deep sobs
• He’s no very good at cookin

Question 2

Family relationships

x4

Answer 2

• Ah could paint it if ye like
• Did you gamble with that bursary money?
• Can ye no tell me anythin? Think ah came fae another planet
That was a great poem he made up

Question 3

Social class
x2

Answer 3

• Be a buncha snobs at the school anyway. As toffeenosed wee shites
• Goin tae a good school. Go on tae the university. Decent job

Question 4

Religion

x3

Answer 4

• Ah just sorta… Liked it
• Next thing ye’ll be carryin a rosary and crossing yerself

• Why didn’t she ask me something straightforward? // who carried Christ’s cross on the way to calvary?

Question 5

Yaught symbol

x1

Answer 5

• Ah always meant to, just… // Just never did // Story a ma life”

Question 6

Broken mirror symbol

x2

Answer 6

• Does me fine for shavin

* The two half’s don’t sit right

Question 7

Cellophane symbol

x1

Answer 7

• Wonder how it works. Where the colour goes