Billy Elliot - Questions for pp. 74-84

Billy Elliot - Questions for pp. 74-84 1. Why does Billy give up practising on p. 74? 2. What does he call Mrs. Wilkinson? 3. Explain Billy’s feelings towards Tony and Jackie’s fight and towards his family life in general. 4. What makes Billy so frustrated that he yells at Mrs. Wilkinson, calls her names etc.? 5. What is Mrs. Wilkinson’s response? 6. Describe how their fight ends. 7. “You’ve got to hand it to her, haven’t you? And you know what? She never even asked me what the matter was.”(p.76) Comment on this quote and what it says about Billy’s feelings towards Mrs. Wilkinson. 8. “… but then he’d sneak out the back way and go off to do whatever it was he did with himself on his own – dressing up or whatever, I expect, the big pansy.” (p.77) What does this quote say about Billy’s attitude towards Michael? 9. Comment on Billy’s attitude towards Debbie. 10. Comment on the connection between Billy listening to Swan Lake with Mrs. Wilkinson, then the encounter with his mam, and finally listening and dancing to Swan Lake with his Nan. 11. How does Billy interpret seeing his mam?