Judy

• Judy (Christopher’s Mother)- a realistic Mum 

  AO1- maternal instinct / tries to bond with autistic son

  ‘Bloody Nora, it’s cold’ (simultaneously) 

  AO2 – shared dialogue – Christopher’s flashback to holiday in Cornwall
• Judy (Christopher’s Mother)- a realistic Mum 

  AO1 - Struggled to cope – tried to build relationship with son but found it too hard

  ‘I just cried and cried and cried’
• AO2 – Judy’s letter – nested narrative of time they went to the shops. Repeated use of connective ‘and’ across letter reading almost like endless list of challenges. Concludes with her sadness that she could not manage – repetition of cried.
• AO3 – Audience sympathise with Judy’s efforts to manage her son’s needs- her efforts and failings. She is a flawed Mum but this is realistic to our own experiences of being human. Parents in audience will empathise and also feel compassionate about her additional complexities.
• Judy (Christopher’s Mother)- a realistic Mum 

  AO1 - Selfish

  ‘Maybe if things had been different, maybe if you’d been different.’

  AO2- parallelism
• AO3 – Judy’s hopes as a new mother would need to have been adjusted when she had an autistic son. Parents can have unrealistic aims and fantasies about what it means to have children. Judy is not willing to make the sacrifices needed and appears selfish to the audience and Christopher