The Go Between

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their working clothes or some just take off their coats and play in their normal clothes. Meanwhile the members of the Hall team are respectably attired, in their cricket whites and with appropriate equipment. Leo likens this difference to the Boer War, “The village team were like the Boers, who did not have much in the ways of equipment by our standards, but could give a good account of themselves,” (page 117) (The Boers were an army with no uniform).
There is also a difference between their styles of play. The village team is prepared to hit the ball with no real style, just with power. An example of this is shown in the innings of Ted Burgess, when he is at the crease as soon as a ball comes close to him, he thumps it away. The Hall team play with a sense of decorum, they play the correct strokes and look great. An example of this is shown in the innings of Lord Trimingham.
Not only is there a contest going on between the hall and the villagers, but there also ...

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always seemed to be a part of him. Ted’s fine feathers made him look a yokel. (Page 131)
Marcus thinks the villagers’ smell, simply because they are in a lower class than him. “ We've said goodbye to the village for a year. Did you notice the stink in that hall” (page 139) Marcus and his mother Mrs Maudsley hate the idea of sitting next to the villagers. Those two sentences sum up their attitude towards the villagers. “I was sitting with Mama pretending to be a villager – poor dear, she didn’t want them on both sides of her – and she was convulsed, and so was I – I shouldn’t like to tell you what I nearly did.” Marcus ...

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