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- Brighton rock is a form of stick candy, usually with a bright exterior and a white interior with the word “Brighton” in red capital letters extruded through the length of the candy, so that no matter where one bites or breaks it, the city’s name is visible.
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Rock (often known by its place of origin, for instance Blackpool rock or Brighton rock) is a type of hard stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery most usually flavoured with peppermint or spearmint.
Mar 10, 2020 · He began producing sticks of brightly coloured, lettered candy sticks at his Yorkshire-based sweet factory in 1887. He sent his first batch of lettered rock to retailers in Blackpool, where it was well received and typically had ‘Blackpool Rock’ running through the centre.
Jun 19, 2009 · Brighton rock is a form of stick candy, usually with a bright exterior and a white interior with the word “Brighton” in red capital letters extruded through the length of the candy, so that...
Nov 11, 2016 · The extended metaphor of a stick of Brighton Rock is central to the novel’s ideas, though. Ida harangues Rose on the nature of life imploring her to change her course, and she does so making reference to the confectionery, ‘Bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton.
- The Story
- Catholicism
- Social Awareness
- Setting
- Signatures
- Digging Deeper
- Early Years
- A Difficult Adolescence
- The Aftermath
The novel opens with a journalist hack who has been caught up with rival racetrack gangs and turned into an informer. ‘Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him’. Pinkie and his gang, Spicer, Dallow and Cubitt, are out to avenge the death of their former boss, Kite. By the end of the first chapter, Hale ha...
Greene made Pinkie a Catholic in order to view his behaviour from a theological perspective. In particular he wished to examine the effect of faith on action and felt it was time for him to do so. He had converted to Catholicism himself ten years earlier when he married: ‘It takes longer to familiarise oneself with a region of the mind than with a ...
All his life Greene supported the underdog, and was sensitive to issues of social justice. His friend the writer Shirley Hazzard believed that he had been marked by the Great Depression, during which he and his wife Vivien had endured poverty and anxiety. Much of his early fiction is set in harsh environments in which those who are poor remain so, ...
Greene had strong feelings for Brighton: ‘No city before the war, not London, Paris or Oxford, had such a hold on my affections.’ He knew it well, first as a child of six, when he was sent with an aunt to convalesce from a bout of illness. On that trip he had seen his first film, the silent one: Sophy of Kravonia. The tale of a kitchenmaid who beca...
Graham Greene a was guarded, and prickly man. His biographer Norman Sherry was ‘fascinated by his singular smile and eyes so blue that they gave off a curious sense of blindness’. Marie-Françoise Allain, a friend of his who interviewed him extensively for The Other Man(1985) described him as almost wilfully obscure. He confessed to her that he did ...
Greene well understood that the past is critical for understanding the work of a writer. In an essay about Henry James, he wrote: The early formative years of a writer must always have a special fascination: the innocent eye [dwells] frankly on a new unexplored world, the vistas of new experience at the end of the laurel walk, the voices of older p...
Greene claimed his childhood in England’s Hertfordshire was a happy one. He was the fourth of six children, with six cousins living nearby. His parents were aloof, middle class and largely benign. What distinguished him from the other children was his acute sensitivity and a vivid imagination that conjured up all types of terrors. Lurking in wait n...
Greene confessed that the horror in his life began when he was thirteen when he was moved to St John’s, a boarders house a short distance from his home and school. Here he found himself in ‘a savage country of strange customs and inexplicable cruelties’. He became a ‘hunted creature’, a ‘foreigner’ and a ‘suspect’, and suffered loneliness and betra...
Greene’s biographer Sherry suggests that the switch from an atmosphere of utter imprisonment at St John’s to one of freedom and enlightenment, may have established his life’s pattern of escaping from the impossible or the boring into unknown and dangerous environments which would stimulate, offer fresh experiences and also provide copy for his nove...
Jun 5, 2017 · No trip to the coast would be complete without the iconic seaside confection – a stick of rock. Nearly every shop worth its salt (or sugar) along Brighton’s seafront promenade offers rock, but the self-proclaimed ‘original’ Rock Shop on King’s Road is a good starting place.
Brighton Rock: why is the title apt? Brighton is (or was, in Britain, until recent times) very closely associated in the public mind with the sticks of rock sold there, and would have been so even more in the 1930s, when the rock would have been seen as a semi-luxury.
