Cal

Sometimes a novel can change your view of a major issue or political problem of our time by giving you a fresh insight into it. Did Cal change your views in any way? Was the success or failure of Cal in changing your way of thinking about Northern Ireland due to MacLaverty’s success of failure as a writer?

The novel Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty gives a brief insight into the Catholic-Protestants conflict that exists in present-day Northern Ireland. The story follows a young man Cal, a confused 19-year Old Catholic boy living in a Protestant residential area of town in Northern Ireland. The story is tragic and touching and Bernard MacLaverty manages to make a moving novel out of the complexities of Northern Ireland through Cal’s perspective.

Through evaluation of Cal it changed my view of the situation in Northern Ireland to a certain extent. The story demonstrated the situation from a personal outlook guiding us through a young mans struggle to deal with the confli...