Brooklyn Themes

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BROOKLYN THEMES:

The migration experience

Author Choices:

• He wrote according to his own experiences (when he went to Barcelona for the first time when he was 20 and he became

Grief and Loss

Family

Personal Growth

16:29 BBC Interview with Colm Toibin

[on writing as a woman when he is a man]

"The page is not a mirror. When you see a page, it's blank. And your job is to fill it, not see yourself in it."

"..you no longer exist. It's all about the character."

[on Eilis' passive personality and her being very influenced]

18:30 "She needs to be like that for the plot of the book to work."

[Characterisation] 19:00

Eilis: Dutiful, endearing, responsible irish daughter

21:29 last place i listened