Analysis

The author Melvin Burgess wants to say that there is no typical boy or typical girl. He has the opinion that a girl can box and a boy can dance ballet. When sombody loves a special hobby he should realize his dream. The auther wants us to model oneself on Billy. He has changed his personality, he became more self-confident and we should do the same like Billy. He also wants to show us the hard and poor life of the miners, the strikes and the existential anxiety. This people have not enough to eat, the whole day they work hard or strike and all the time they are in fear of unemployment. The working class (= miners) and the middle class (= culture, ballet teacher ...) are contrary. Ballet and boxing are cantrary and Billy and his father are contrary too. In the end the miners loose. But Billy wins: Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true! Billy´s dream is so powerful that he is convincing even his father and brother of it. So the conflicts between Billy and his father and brother end. At last they are proud of Billy and take part of his new life in a new world, far away from working class, miners, strikes and boxing.

Analysis2

In this post I would like to write something about the style of writing the author Melvin Burgess uses and the structure of the book.
The book has 20 chapters. The titles of these chapters are alternating and have names like "Billy", "Jacky Elliot", "George", "Tony" and "Michael", the most important persons of the book. The Chapters are written from the point of view of these different persons. So you can read about the feelings of Billy, but also about the feelings and opinions of his father, his friend, his brother and so on. That´s very interesting and exciting. In the end you are able to understand the point of view of everybody and nobody is only right or wrong.
The whole book is written in a colloquial language, like people are speaking. The linguistic usage is powerful and strong. I suppose it´s typical working class. This direct speech is exciting. It transports many different feelings. The reader of the book is feeling like beeing right in the middle of it. German pupils like me, who have never been in England before, have a first impression of the colloquial language. That´s very interesting and useful.
(195 words)

Looking back "Billy Elliot"

Now I have read "Billy elliot", so I am able to tell you the whole story:
You know already, that Billy lives in a miner family with a boxer-tradition.
Because of that there are conflicts beetween Billy and his father(Jackie)
Billy loves ballet and secretly he goes to ballet lessons. The problem is Jackie realizes it and he bans Billy going there an other time. But the ballet teacher gives Billy secretly gratis individualised teaching, because she wants Billy to make a qualifying examination, so that he is able to go to the famous "Royal Ballet School".
Billy misses the qualifying examination. On christmas Billy shows his friend Michael the dance and Jackie watches the dance too. He realizes that Billy has talent.
In the end they drive to London, Billy dances and passes with flying colours. 140 words.