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I have more sympathy towards Edward due to the fact that he may be more educated but doesn't understand the world as much,this is due to the ever-worried Mrs Lyons trying to keep him from it.as well as this he doesn't understand much about why he's being kept from Mickey and why he keeps being told off for it.this makes him extremely confused and starts to lose trust in everyone.this makes him put faith in others and other people can be extremely manipulative,like when Mickey dared Edward to chuck a stone at a window.

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I think Edward deserves more sympathy as he doesn't know any different because he has no freedom or social skills. Edward is more educated than Mickey therefore he should of still made the right decision, however he wants to learn new things and new peoples opinions so he's going to be interested in what other people are doing and will want to join in. Edward having no social skills will put him in positions that he can't get out of, such as he couldn't counteract Mrs Lyons argument. This means he can not defend him self  or give reasoning to why he did/said a certain thing.
Jacob Binstead

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I have more sympathy for Edward due to the fact that he is is not as street wise as Mickey. In the segment of the book where Edward is pressured in to throwing the rock at the window he was unaware that he was being manipulated by the other children whilst it appears that the other children we aware that they were appling pressure to each other by "daring" each other and calling each other scared if they did not throw the rock.This makes me feel sorry for Edward because of the vulnarability that he has gained and throught the vulnerability he can easily be manipulated.Also because of his vulnerability he could easily be pressured in to doing other ,more severe, actions in the future. As he grows and because during the 1960 heroin was a drug that was filling the streets in Liverpool, where the book is set, this gullableness that Edward possesses makes me sympathise with him more because of the control other people can gain of him using manipulation.

Lydia Dulley

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i feel sympathetic towards eddie because he was pear pressured into doing something which he knew was wrong. as well as this he was doing and saying stuff he didn't understand for example when he calls his mummy a"fuck off" he doesn't understand what it means and doesn't understand why he gets slapped. also I feel sympathetic towards him because he was being shelterd by his mummy from the outside world so he has no social skills, his mummy only does this so just so he can't see micky.

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Edward deserves more sympathy due to his lack of understanding about the current events happening in his life. This Is evident in the text when Edward is severely unable to counteract Mrs Lyons argument. This Puts Edward in a position unable to defend or justify himself.

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i feel sorry for Edward the most because he is an only child and he isn't allowed to be with his best friend Mickey who incidentally is his brother. Also as Mickey has seven siblings he has far more freedom than Edward, who has no siblings and an over-protective mother who doesn't want to let her adopted child go

Edward Welburn

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Mickey had the chance of a lifetime. The chance to have every toy he could ask for, to have food on the table and to have two wheels on his bike. He was the unfortunate boy who wasn't picked by Mrs Lyons. Though some people may argue that he was lucky as he is able to grow up with his real mother, you need to consider all the things he will be unable to do all because of his poor origin. Both Edward and Mickey will grow up not knowing they are related, but it is clear that Edward got the better deal as he is able to enjoy playing with toys, like he bike with both wheels!

Adam Jenkins

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I feel sorry for Edward because he was pressured by mickey to do something that he did not want to do. This was probably a result of him not having well developed social skills, as his mother (Mrs Lyons) is very overprotective and hasn't let him socialize with other children in the past.

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Because he doesn't know the truth about brother and his parents don't treat him like he should be as a 7 year on and it deprived of freedom.

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Edward.                                I feel sorry for Edward because he is being pressured by people he has only just met. He seems to have put too much trust in them and thus he is getting into trouble for things he doesn't understand. An example of this is when he calls his mum a "f##k off" because Mickey has told him the word and he doesn't understand what it means 

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Edward.                                I feel sorry for Edward because he is being pressured by people he has only just met. He seems to have put too much trust in them and thus he is getting into trouble for things he doesn't understand. An example of this is when he calls his mum a "f##k off" because Mickey has told him the word and he doesn't understand what it means 

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I feel sorry for Edward becauae he has never been pressured like that before so he does not know what to do , this is because his mum never let him mix with different types of people so in that situation he would listen to them. Additionally I feel sorry for him because even though he has been educated at school he does not know about Street safety so he will do what ever they tell him to do.

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Because he's the youngest and doesn't get the same opputunitys and doesn't have the same amount of freedom, and he should know about Edward being his brother.

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Personally, I synpathise Edward because of his upbringing. Although he is educated to a certain degree he isn't educated in social aspects. Such as when he said "f@*$off" to his "mummy". This shows that because he hasn't ebb exposed to behaviour and words like this he doesn't know when is the appropriate time to say it or whether it is ok or not. This makes me feel sorry for him because he has embarrassed himself and done something considered socially wrong however he doesn't understand why.

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I feel sorry for Edward because since he was a baby he's been away from his mother and has been raised my Mrs Lyons. Also, he doesn't get the amount of freedom Mickey gets because Mrs Lyons is overprotective. Mrs Lyons doesn't want Edward mixing in with Mickey and she is even willing to move to the country to keep Edward away from his brother Mickey

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I feel sorry for Edward because although he is well educated and is more likely to have a successful career in the future I think that he doesn't have much freedom or social skills compared to Mickey. Mrs Lyons is very overprotective because Edward is probably the only child she will ever raise. She doesn't want Edward socialising with any of Mrs Johnstone's kids and will even move out of that neighbourhood just to make sure they never see each other again. Therefore, Edward's freedom is very limited as for Mrs Lyons makes most of Edward's decisions without considering what he wants. Also, I think that Mickey has a slight advantage because Mrs Lyons can be very strict, for example when she argued with Edward about him playing with Mickey, Edward could find her quite intimidating and he could become more timid, which will effect his social skills. As for Mickey, his
social skills will only improve because he has a lot of siblings to interact with.

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I am sympathetic towards Mickey because he was brought up in a poorer area  with no manners and hardly no education, he also never gets any attention off his mother because she many other things on her mind that she needs to be focussed on. Due to this he feels pushed aside and not important so he has got himself into the wrong crowd without even realising.

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I feel sorry for mickey because he has grown up being poor and doesn't know any better. He looks up to people like sammy who steal toys and say bad words and wants to be like them which doesn't help the fact that he does the wrong things.

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He has had very little his whole life and is now having his best friend taken away from him, despite only wanting to be nice to him and doing what he knows, which just so happens to be the wrong thing

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I feel sorry for Edward Lyon due the fact that he is so uneducated. This is because he was told a swear word my Mickey and he went up to his mum and said it to her in a sentence that didn't make sense. This shows that he is uneducated because he was mad at his 'mummy' so called a swear word which is disrespectful anywhere so he clearly doesn't know how to treat others. The reader will be shocked as such a friendly, polite boy has just offended his mother and they will except Mrs Lyons to do something about Edward mixing with the other boys. The writer did this to show the context of 1980's Liverpool and to tell the reader that not may people were that posh and if you were you would stand out

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Because he doesn't know any different, however Edward does which therefore means that Edward might have been more capable of making the correct decision. Mickey might not know any different because of his uneducated up bringing and his surroundings by his brothers and sisters. Therefore Mickey is less capable of knowing what is right and wrong compared to Edward that has had an educated upbringing with more attention, which may also link to why Mickey did it as he might of wanted the attention from his mother as early on in the play there was the quote that read "Thats because you're the youngest child' which shows that there are many kids and he is trying to get attention from his mother. Overall even though Edward was peer-pressured I feel that Mickey should have more sympathy as he doesn't know any better as not everyone was that privileged in 1980's

Amelia Cowie

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I believe Edward because he's obviously not had the right treament for a child to go and say to his mother " you're a f*ckoff" however this could just be showing Edward still being a childish mannered person. Despite this, Edward has also only just found his first relateable friends and now he's being forced to leave the neighbourhood because of them. In addition to this, Ed being high status and rich is usually deemed innocent and isn't irresponsible; this could be what caused him to want to throw the stones as a result of people presuming it wasn't him to do anything "bad"

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Because he has been pressured into doing something that he wasn't sure on.