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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Davey, Joe, Stars entitled The Stars Look Down?
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conversations.value: The Stars Look Down: The novel centres on three very different men: Reactions to the failure of industrial action on safety issues in the coal mines are crystallised in the characters of Davey and Joe, who take vastly different routes in escaping from the working class.\nWhile Davey becomes an MP to fight for nationalisation of the mines, Joe essentially joins the mine owners.\nJenny Sunley is Davey's indifferent wife who craves social status, and other characters have short but distinct tales of their own.\nCronin shows a broad sympathy for the workers and a dislike of the bosses, but also allows that at least some of the bosses can be decent at a personal level.\nThe Great War is also a factor: do you volunteer to fight, volunteer for non-military duties, use trickery to evade service or openly defy the system by refusing call-up.\nThere is a brief description of one of the tribunals that examined conscientious objectors, often refusing to accept their objection as valid.\nThere is also a clear commitment to the idea of nationalising the mines, replacing the mass of small private owners that existed at the time.\nThe novel ends with most of the men much changed, and it is an excellent description of working-class life in the North of England during that period.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about \nCentral, Neptune.
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conversations.value: The Stars Look Down: The novel centres on three very different men: Reactions to the failure of industrial action on safety issues in the coal mines are crystallised in the characters of Davey and Joe, who take vastly different routes in escaping from the working class. \nWhile Davey becomes an MP to fight for nationalisation of the mines, Joe essentially joins the mine owners. \nJenny Sunley is Davey's indifferent wife who craves social status, and other characters have short but distinct tales of their own. \nCronin shows a broad sympathy for the workers and a dislike of the bosses, but also allows that at least some of the bosses can be decent at a personal level. \nCentral to the story is the Neptune coal mine and a catastrophe that occurs there. \nThe Great War is also a factor: do you volunteer to fight, volunteer for non-military duties, use trickery to evade service or openly defy the system by refusing call-up. \nThere is a brief description of one of the tribunals that examined conscientious objectors, often refusing to accept their objection as valid. \nThere is also a clear commitment to the idea of nationalising the mines, replacing the mass of small private owners that existed at the time. \nThe novel ends with most of the men much changed, and it is an excellent description of working-class life in the North of England during that period.