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The first chapter takes place in a Protestant street.Tommy and Sadie Jackson are already looking forward to the 12th day of July which is a Protestant celebration day. Before dinner Mr Jackson asks his children why they are celebrating this day. After her mother tried to hit her Sadie flees from the kitchen into the street. The Jacksons\' house doesn\'t look like the other houses in the street. That\'s because of a paiting on the front side. It shows a mural of William of Orange. On the street Tommy and Sadie meet Steve and Linda who want to go to Mrs McConkey\'s shop to get some decorations. While they are buying the bunting a red-haired boy says that his street will look the best. So he and the four friends from the other street make a bet that their street will look the best.
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Down with King Billy The McCoys are in their house and talk about the Protestants. Later Brede leaves the house and meets Kate.Together they go to buy some chips. Leaving the shop they meet a group of boys. Kevin, one of these boys, talks with Brede and Kate about their intention. They want to paint \"Down with King Billy\" on one house of the Protestants to provoke them.
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Act of Provocation Evening, Sadie is upstairs in her room when she hears two boys talking about the mural on the gable wall of their house. She runs downstairs and sees that DOWN WITH KING BILLY has been painted on the mural. Running after them she catches one of the boys but has to let him go again. Meanwhile a crowd of angry neighbours has gathered in front of the mural and Sadie swears revenge.
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A Summons to Tyrone Kevin arrives at home from his adventures in the Protestant area- saying to his father that nothing has happened.
The next morning everybody knows what Kevin and Brian did the night before.
Mr. McCoy is a bit proud of his son but Mrs. McCoy in annoyed about what her son has done.
The McCoys get a telegram from Kevin\'s aunt that Bede\'s and Kevin\'s grandmother is ill. So Kev\'s parents decide to drive down to Tyrone with uncle Albert\'s car.
First uncle Albert\'s car doesn\'t start - everybody has to push but in the end they leave the kids alone at home.
Kevin is in a great mood and suggests to have a party.
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The Eighth Day of July Sadie, Tommy, Steve and Linda have worked hard, so that they have money for buying some ice at Mrs Mc Conkey\'s shop. After this Sadie and Tommy are going alone to a shop where paint is sold. So they buy orange paint which they hide under the bed when they come home. At night they both get outside with the paint to go to the Catholic area. When they are painting the wall with \"GOD BLESS KING BILLY, NO POPE HERE\" and try to run away, Sadie is caught by Brian.
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The Ninth Day of July After having being caught by Catholics, Sadie is brought to the McCoys\' by Brian (chap.5).
Now she\'s sitting in a Catholic house, wondering that it\'s similar to a Protestant house. She really hasn\'t expected that...
Brede offers her some tea, because she doesn\'t agree with Kevin\'s unfriendly behaviour.
An argument starts between Kevin and Sadie, they both do not accept the other\'s opinion.
While Kevin says that Protestants lie and that they are slaves to a man who\'s been dead for more than
300 years, Sadie compares the Catholics with a pack of sheep, doing just what they\'re told to and she is of the opinion that they are slaves to a man in Rome they\'ve never set eyes on.
Later Sadie is allowed to leave the McCoys\' house without any problems.
But Kevin doesn\'t leave it as this.The next day he and Brian decide to go for a walk through the Protestant area.
And there they meet Sadie again, and she\'s not alone...
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A Fight and a Fire
Kevin and Brian walk over to the Protestants\' area and have a look at the mural of Sadie\'s house. An argument starts with the Protestant teens and a constable and a priest calm them down, avoiding a fight.
To raise some more money Sadie starts making and selling chips but sets the kitchen on fire when the ginger-haired boy annoys her outside.
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Mrs Jackson Gets a Fright
Mr Mullet and Mr Jackson go to the pub and the children are in their beds. Mrs Jackson and Mrs Mullet sit together in the Mullets\' kitchen. They speak about the burned kitchen and their girls. Mrs Mullet says that she would kill her Linda if she did something like that to her. But Mrs Jackson says that Linda was with Sadie. So they discuss while they sit together. Sadie is in her bed. She thinks of the kitchen and the flames. Also, she wonders what they are doing on the other side... Kate, Brede, Kevin, Brian and a few other people have a party. After the party Brian and Kevin cross over the street and go into the Protestant area. They see that there has been a fire. Kevin steps into the kitchen and opens the kitchen door, but suddenly Mrs Jackson comes in and cries: \"Who is there?\"
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No Surrender
Mrs. Jackson tells her family why she got a fright. Tommy should go to the police. Meanwhile Sadie goes to the McCoys\' house. She breaks into the house and puts the light on. She wants to let Kevin know that she was there. She writes some words with a biro on the wooden table. KING BILLY WAS HERE. LONG LIVE KING BILLY. When she is doing that Kevin looks at her: She throws flour at him, flees into the backyard and goes over the backwall. She hides in a dustbin, because she is searched by the Catholics. Luckily nobody finds her.
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No Sign of Sadie
Kevin has watchers in all the streets around, so that they are able to discover Sadie, in case she tries to escape. When he sees Brian sitting cross-legged with a cramp on the street nodding his head, he decides to guard this side by himself, because Brian doesn\'t seem to be a very good guard. And who knows, maybe Sadie already got passed him. In Kevin\'s opinion the things that Sadie did can\'t get unchallenged.For him it was an act of provocation. And the fights will only end when the other side admits defeat. After he has been sitting there for quite a while he decides to go to bed because he\'s convinced that Sadie already got home.
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The Tenth Day of July
Mr. Jackson wants to wake up Sadie for breakfast, when he sees that she didn\'t lie in her bed the whole night.
The Jacksons ask themselves where Sadie could be but they think that she would come back soon whereever she might be now. While Mrs Jackson prepares the lunch, Sadie is not there at all and she wonders if she can hold Sadie\'s lunch warm.
But Sadie is not there in the evening as well, so Tommy and some other children go around to look for her. When they don\'t find her in the Protestant area, they go into the Catholic quarter to search her there.
A couple of Catholic teenagers is standing around in the street. Tommy asks, if they have seen his sister, but they say that they didn\'t meet her. So Tommy leaves the Catholic quarter to go home.
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Sadie Discovered
In this chapter Kevin and Brede want to find Sadie because she disappeared the day before. They think that she would have hidden in any of the backyards of the houses in this street. Both make a plan that their friends will make some noise with bang drums and yell at the frontside of the houses while they will be looking around in the backyards. After doing this they still haven\'t found her. They think that she has gone into any house. Mr Mooney\'s one is the most thinkable because he left the day before. They go into the house through the frontdoor which isn\'t locked. They look in all rooms and at last they find Sadie in the kitchen. She says that she couldn\'t leave because Kevin and his friends were patrolling down the street. When Sadie wants to go Kevin catches her by her arm and says that he will let her go if she cleans their kitchentable which she has made dirty. They all leave Mr Mooney\'s house and suddenly Sadie screams for help.
13 A Confrontation
In this chapter Sadie\'s father and a few other men from the Protestant quarter are searching for Sadie. When the Protestants and the Catholics meet, a policeman is very busy to keep the men away from each other. Suddenly Sadie comes out of the house and tells the people that she was kidnapped by the Catholic children. This is the reason of the argument that nearly develops into a struggle. At the end of this chapter, Mr McCoy arrives at home and gets a fine because of his rotten car.
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The Eleventh Day of July
The Eleventh Day of July is the night when the bonfires are lit. All Protestants are looking forward to it, especially Sadie. Sadie pulls on her outfit for the 12th and marches through her room, she is practicing for the event.
Later Sadie and the others collect flammable materials for a bonfire. After that their buntings are damaged by the ginger haired boy who tried to sabotage the competition of the best buntings in the street, so they buy new buntings. After the minister took a look at the buntings and decided to draw the competition, Sadie is very angry about that. They start their fire and dance round it, having a lot of fun.
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On the Other Side
Kate gets some money from her father. So she invites her friends to the zoo. On the way back home, they see the bonfires of the Prods, as they call them. In the evening they go to street which borders the Catholic and the Protestant quarter. There they meet some Protestant children.
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The Fight
The Protestants and the Catholics begin a fight. They throw stones at each other. Brede is hit by a stone and she has to be brought to hospital by an ambulance.
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The Glorious Twelfth
Although looking forward the march.They decide to go to hospital to visit Brede. There they meet Kevin who tells them that Brede will soon be OK.. After this message, Kevin, Tommy and Sadie decide to go to the beach together. There they spend a nice day and they ask themselves why Protestants and Catholics can\'t live together peacefully.
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