Téama

• D'fhulaing gnáthdhaoine agus gnáthchlainne.
  • Ordinary people and ordinary families suffered.
• Is é an foréigean fánach a tharla sa tuaisceart an teama sa scéal seo, dar liom.
  • The futile violence that happened in the north is the theme in this story, according to me.

• Is rud náireach agus scanrúil é don léitheoir, an dúnmharú gan cúis.
  • It is terrifying for the reader, the murder without reason.
• Ach do mhuintir Béal Feiriste ag an am, ba gnáthrud é sin.
  • But for the people of Belfast at the time, that was normal.

• Tríd an scéil, buailtear le gnáthdaoine ag déanamh gnáthrudaí.
  • Throughout the story, one meets normal people doing normal things.
• Daoine ag ól sa bhéar, tuistí ag streachailt le páistí sa bhaile, freastalaí ag déaláil le custaiméirí.
  • People drinking in the bar, parents struggling with children at home, waiters dealing with customers.

• Toisc go raibh an léitheoir ar a chompord ag léamh an scéil, chuir an buaicphointe agus an críoch níos mó béime ar an bhforéigean.
  • As the reader was at ease reading the story, the climax and the end put more emphasis on the violence.
• Mharaítear é toisc go raibh sé san áit mícheart ag an am mícheart.
  • He was killed because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.