Frank starts a soccer team with Malachy and his friend Billy Campbell. After finding his mom's treasured red dress in a trunk he is inspired to name his team "The Red Hearts of Limerik"... He decides to cut up the red dress and use it as part of the team's uniform... while going through the trunk Frank finds papers on his parents marriage.
Frank goes out with his friend Mike and Mike's dad for Mikes sixteenth birthday. They go to a pub.. while there Mike begins to explain to Frank how children are concieved. Also the barman says something which moves Mike's dad to stop drinking entirely and stop driving his wife mad with all his drinking.
Frank's soccer team beats a team full of rich kids with Frank scoring the winning goal.... Frank begins working with a nice man named Mr. Hannon doing a coal mining job.. Mr. Hannon urges Frank to go to school and read books and do all the right things.. A lot of Frank's friends are jealous of Frank's manly job of handling coal. However, after being around coal dust so often Frank's eyes get irriatated by the coal dust and Angela won't let Frank go to work.. even though Mr. Hannon's condition is getting worse. The day Frank wasnt able to go to work Mr. Hannon gets hospitalized and Frank goes to see him and they have an emotional meeting.
I feel as though Mr. Hannon could be a very good influence on Frank... Obviously Frank seems to really respect Mr. Hannon and wants nothing more than to please him and help him out... It seems as though Mr. Hannon is more of an appropriate father figure to Frank than his own father is... Hopefully, Frank's time with Mr. Hannon can help turn Frank's bad behavior around.. It was interesting not hearing much of anything about either Angela or Malachy Sr.
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