THE GROWING OF ADRIAN MOLE
Oral exhibition by
Lidia Haba García y Lorena Martínez Pérez
The growing pains of Adrian Mole
01 – April 4th
1982 – April 14th
Adrian Mole was making a model airplane
when he decided to do an experiment: to sniff the glue. Adrian’s nose was
swollen because he was allergic to the glue.
Pandora was Adrian’s girlfriend.
Adrian’s mother was depressed and
she didn’t do normal things. Adrian and his father had a conversation about
love. George Mole told him that when they were young his mother had beautiful
girls and for that reason he fell in love with her. Adrian was surprised
because he fell in love with Pandora because of her intelligence.
03 – April 26th
– Mat 15th
One day he met Doreen Slater (he
called her “Stick Insect”). She was his father’s girlfriend when George was separated
from Adrian’s mother. Doreen was very fat in that moment.
Adrian walked near Pandora’s house
and there was a fancy dress party. He was very sad because he still loved her
but it seemed that she was happy without him.
04 – May 17th
– June 1st
His parents asked him if he would
want a brother o a sister, but Adrian said no. then, his parents told him that
she was pregnant.
One night he couldn’t sleep and went
for a walk. He saw Pandora’s house and he started to cry. Adrian didn’t know
anything about her and he missed Pandora so much. Then, he went to visit Bert
and Queenie, and old marriage and friends of Adrian. Some days he went to their
house to see them and help them. But they were still sleeping, so he returned
to his house.
05 – June 7th
– June 30th
Doreen Slater (Stick Insect) was
pregnant too. Adrian thought about who could be the father and he wished that
he wasn’t his father.
Adrian and his parents were talking
about their holidays. His father said that it was their last holidays because
it could be difficult to travel with the baby the next year.
Adrian understood that Pandora would
never return with him. His friend Nigel organized a blind date for Adrian with
Sharon Botts.
06 – July 2nd
– July 15th
Bert Baxter called Adrian very
nervous. Queenie didn’t fell well. His parents went with him to Baxter’s house
and called an ambulance. Queenie had a stroke and she would be some days at the
hospital. Adrian went to Bert’s house wvery day and helped him with housework.
Some day Pandora went to see Bert
because Adrian told her what happened. Pandora saw Adrian ironed. He looked
like a responsible boy.
07 – July 16th
– July 24th
Stick Insect called to George Mole
one day. Adrian saw them walking together arm in arm. He thought that it was
good that his father helped her, but she was pregnant and people could think
that Mr. Mole was the baby’s father.
08 – July 26th
– August 4th
The Mole came to Pandora’s house to
tell her and her parents the things that they would have to do in Bert’s house
while they were on holidays. Pandora wouldn’t go with Adrian because her father
didn’t want to pay the travel cost and Pandora didn’t have any money for her
own. Adrian would be alone with his family.
Mrs. Mole was very proud of her
growing bump. When someone came to visit them, she showed her bump. Adrian couldn’t
see that so he left the room and she went to his bedroom.
09 – August 10th
– August 18th
George Mole received a call when
they continued in Skegness. Stick Insect had his baby and Mr. Mole was the
father. The next day he went to the hospital to see his son, called Brett.
Pauline Mole didn’t allow George
Mole to return home, so he, Stick Insect, her first son Maxwell and the baby
had to go to grandmother’s house.
10 – August 20th
– September 3rd
Mrs. Mole was depressed and she didn’t
do the housework. Adrian started to cook. They went to the bank to borrow some
money.
Pandora and her family went out. Adrian
offered to feed the cat and to keep their house.
11 – September 4th
– September 15th
Adrian guarded Pandora’s house
whilst she and her family was out.
His mother’s her new boyfriend (Adrian
called him Horrible Lucas).
12 – September 17th
– September 29th
Adrian went to see Queenie at the
hospital.
14 – October 14th
– October 29th
Adrian went to see his brother
Brett. He noticed that his grandmother and Stick Insect wasn’t getting on well,
and his father had lost his job.
His mother had the baby soon, but
she was very stressed because they didn’t had money to prepare a baby’s room.
15 – October 31st
– November 12th
One day, Adrian went to home after
the high school and saw a note from his mother saying she was at hospital. He went
immediately. It was a girl.
Mr. Mole phoned to know the details
of the birth; he wasn’t well with his new family and he wanted to return with
Adrian and his mother.
16 – November 13th
– November 23rd
Adrian and Pandora went to visit
Mrs. Mole and the baby at hospital.
The next day, Pauline Mole returned
to home with George Mole.
His sister was called Rosie Germanie
Mole.
Horrible Lucas phoned one night. Adrian
only could hear that he was going to have a blood test.
18 – December 7th
– December 21st
Queenie died one night when she was sleeping.
Everyone was very sad but it was necessary start with the funeral preparation. Bert
didn’t have money for a nice funeral, so Adrian phoned the Baxter’s friend to
get them to donate money. After the funeral, they went to Pandora’s house.
19 – December 22nd
– December 27th
At night, he went with Pandora to
the Youth Club’s party. He danced with Pandora.
20 – December 28th
– January 5th 1983
The Adrian’s purposes for the New
Year were to study more for his exams, not to think about sex during school
hours, to be friend of Bert’s dog and to try to get his parents together.
After that day, Mr. and Mrs. Mole
negotiated about to come back together. But sometimes they got angry and Adrian
had to be the intermediary.
21 – January 8th
– January 23rd
Mr. and Mrs. Mole had a trial
period. They lived together for a month according to new rules. If it wasn’t
well, they would divorce.
Lucas phoned to say that Rosie was
his daughter.
22 – January 25th
– February 8th
Horrible Lucas came to their house
demanding to see Rosie. Mrs. Mole said that George Mole was the father. Adrian
discovered that his parents had affairs the last year and it made that he had
two new brothers: Brett and Rosie. Lucas said that he would take them to court
if they didn’t allow seeing Rosie. Adrian was very sad, he couldn’t concentrate
and he cried sometimes.
The trial period finished but Mr.
and Mrs. Mole wanted to extend it. They talked about to buy a new house.
24 – February 21st
– March 4th
Adrian was another member of the
Barry’s gang. They used to shout, knock over the rubbish bins and go to the
rubbish tip to take some unbroken furniture.
Pandora sent him a note where she
said that their relationship had finished, because she didn’t like his new
friends.
CHARACTERS
1.
ADRIAN MOLE
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The
protagonist if the series.
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Good
and caring person.
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He
is generally honest and always tries to do the right thing, sometimes leaving
him open to manipulation by the less scrupulous.
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He
is an average man with many normal human shortcomings, but he has a very good
heart and deals with life’s challenges in a manner sometimes comic, always
honest. He has a timeless appeal to the everyman sentiment in all reader.
2.
PANDORA BRAITHWAITE
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She
was Adrian’s Mole first girlfriend and the love of his life.
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She
is academically brilliant and a gifted linguist later becoming a Member of
Parliament and junior minister in Tony Blair’s New Labour Government.
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She
is he only daughter of Ivan Braithwaite and Tania Braithwaite.
3.
BERT BAXTER
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He
is an old-age pensioner befriended by Adrian Mole.
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He
first appears in the book The Secret
Diary of Adrian Mole.
4.
PAULINE MOLE
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She
is Adrian Mole’s mother.
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She
has a prominent character throughout the series.
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She
is warm-hearted and devoted to her children, but extremely temperamental.
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The
love of her live, whom she has married three times, is George Mole.
5.
GEORGE MOLE
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He
is father of Adrian Mole.
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He
has divorced and remarried Pauline Mole more than once.
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He
used to sell electric storage heaters, but he was made redundant about the same
time Pauline Mole ran off with Mr. Lucas; during this time he dated Doreen
Slater.
6.
NIGEL HETHERINGTON
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He
is Adrian Mole’s best friend since childhood.
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They
attend the same high school and youth club, share various musical and literary
tastes, and even date the same girl, Pandora, in the course of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
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Nigel’s
family is barely described, though his father and mother are referred to as a
maniac and a midget, respectively.
7.
ROSIE MOLE
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She
is much younger sister of Adrian Mole and grows up to be his total opposite,
although they do share quite a close relationship.
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By
the age of 15, in Adrian Mole. The Cappuccino
Years, she has become a foulmouthed rebellious vixen, modeling her
appearance on Spice Girl Emma Bunton, and she wears very short miniskirts.
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She
becomes pregnant by a boyfriend named Aaron Michelthwaite, a fact she discloses
only to Adrian, and orders a realistic baby-simulator doll to prepare herself
for motherhood – although she later chooses to have an abortion.
8.
IVAN BRAITHWAITE
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Father
of Pandora Braithwaite and ex-husband of Tania Braithwaite.
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Ivan
worked as a dairy supervisor, develops a somewhat bohemian outlook during his
middle age, and is determined to connect with working class culture despite his
own relative affluence.
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He
dies on his honeymoon with Pauline Mole by drowning.
