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Cal By Bernard Maclaverty Analysis

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The novel Cal by Bernard Maclaverty, leaves you in a state of being unfulfilled for many reasons. The author makes the reader want more, wondering what is going to happen next. Cal allows the reader to experience what happened during the troubles, and what life was actually like. Being born in America, as well as being the child of Irish immigrants, i’ve always been taught about Irish history because it 's what my parents grew up with. The second to last time I went to Ireland, my parents brought my sister and I to Derry, where we toured the town as well as the famine museum. I was a sophomore then and didn 't take much notice to where I was, or what had happened there. The book Cal allowed me to revisit the “troubled” Ireland and gain a

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