Boekverslag Roddy Doyle

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Datum ingestuurd:	16 juli 2001
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Titel:	The woman who walked into doors
Auteur:	Roddy Doyle
Jaar van uitgave:	1996
Aantal pagina's:	240

Auteur:	Roddy Doyle
Geboren:	8 mei 1958
Populaire titels:	1996The woman who walked into doors (13) 1958The snapper (15) 1987The Commitments (7) 1993Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (2) 1991The van (2)

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Important caracters

Paula:
Paula is the main caracter in this book.
Her full name is Paula Spencer but O’Leary before she got married.
When she teels the story ,she ‘s a widowand married for eighteen years.
Her husband was shot by the guards just a year after she threw him out.
She has for children;Nicola, John Paul, Leanne and Jack.
Paula’s father is dead but her mom is still alive.
She has two sisters and three brothers.
She had another sister but she died.
Her mom had a miscarage, she allso.
She ‘s very close to her sisters,Carmel and Denise but she doensn’t see much of her brothers.
They live somewhere else.
Paula’s an alcoholic.
She have never admitted it to anyone and she don’t want to stop.
She thinks she has it under control, she waits for Jack to go to bed and she allso throws the key of room where al the liquor is away.
But she sends Jack sooner and sooner to bed.
And Paula buys cheaper food for the children so that she has more money for spirits.
Paula came out a poor family and she had a miserable youth.
She really hated school and now she’s still poor.
She cleans houses of rich people

Charlo:
His real name is Charles Spencer.
He has been married with Paula before she threw him out.
Paula:”so I had my identikit of him before I ever saw him; a brown-eyed ride with scars and a record and his mickey thrown over his schoulder and that was exactly what I got.”
He has been in prison in St. Pat for three months for robbing the lead off the roof of an old house in Kinsealy.
Robbing is in his and in his family’s blood
Paula met him in a disco and she fell for him literally and a few years they got married.
And then the trouble started.
He began to beat her up and she has taken it for a long while.
“He did love me.I know. He proved it again and again.It was just something in him.A bit of something that turned bad. Charlo was an angry man.The temper was just always there,underneath.”
Charlo built houses but after all the houses in Dublin were built he got out of work.
A year later after she threw him out he was on the news in a body-bag shot by guards after he murdered a woman.

Nicola:
She is the oldest of the children.
Nicola is eighteen and a job in a shop and a steady boyfriend,Tony.

John Paul:
He is sixteen.
He never comes near Paula,nobody talks about him to her and she never mention him to anyone.
He ‘s an addict to heroin.
John robbed his grandmother more than once.
Paula gave him a tattoo.

Leanne:
Leanne is twelve and intellegent and creative and good at maths but to fond of smart remarks.
Her teacher says she could spend more time at her homework.
Paula wants her to stay in school until she finished.
She should then be the first one of the Spencers to do it.

Jack:
Jack is five, bright and quick.
Whenever Paula feels really poor she looks at Jack because he’s the most well-fed and prosperous.Paula adores him;She has spend more money on his clothes than on all five together, she ‘s gone without food to make him look good..

Gwen and Kevin Flemming:
Charles Spencer murdered Mrs. Flemming, a fifty-four-old housewife.
The wife of Mr Flemming, a fifty-three-year-old bank manager.
She was mother of three grown up children.
He killed her with a shotgun in her kitchen.

Carmel:
Carmel is a sister of Paula and all her youth she is teased by her father.
And that’s why she ‘s a lot more negative about her father then Paula.

Father:
The father of Paula has never accepted Charles and that’s why she wants to get out of the house as soon as possible.

My opinion
For a year ago I began to like to read in English.
Before then I saw the reading really as a excersise but now I read also books for myself in English, not only for school.
And I liked to read in the book of Roddy Doyle.
The language is easy and he writes short sentences.
When I began to read in this book I didn’t quite understand what it was about.
It begins in the present but with flashbacks you get to know what happened in the past.
Through the flashbacks the book becomes never boring but you got to keep attention to follow the story.
In the beginning it really fun to read al the good and bad memories she brings up again about her youth but the last fifty pages are only about Charlo beating her up.
It becomes not boring but it makes you feel depressed.
I think when you make a shorter version of that piece that tragedic and emotional effect shall disappaer.
I think that Roddy Doyle the feelings of a beaten up woman verygood describes.
And I would recommend this book to others and like to read more books of his hand.

Evaluation of working in a group
I worked with Jurre, Marleen and Nienke.
The first lesson we got this project we have divided the instructions.
And I had to write about the caracters.
We worked a little in the class but mostly we discusted the book.
We have all made the things we had to do and we’ve put that together and see, our common bookreview.