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Chapter 1
 Peekay’s mother has a nervous breakdown
 Shipped away from his nanny and sent to boarding school
 first night at school, some boys take him to the showers and punish him for being South African of English descent by weeing on him.
 Mevrou then beats him for supposedly wetting his bed – other boys wee
 Main bully – Judge
 Bed wetting problem
 Peekay goes back to his grandpa's farm where his nanny is
 Gets treated by Inkosi-Inkosikazi for the bed wetting problem
 Peekay names a chicken Granpa Chook and they soon become BFFs.
 Got the nickname ‘Pisskop’

Chapter 2
 Goes back to boarding school but brings his chicken
 Makes a secret coop in the schoolyard
 Peekay then checks on Granpa Chook, but finds a snake in his coop. …show more content…

 The next morning Grandpa Chook is at the window
 Mevrou orders Peekay to bring Granpa Chook to the kitchen.
 Peekay becomes judges slave
 Mevrou beats him until his ear bleeds.
 Miss du Plessis faints, and so does Peekay.
 Mevrou tells him to tell the doctor that he fell out of a tree
 Peekay feels bad about giving his mum and Miss du Plessis nervous breakdowns and making Mevrou wet herself

Chapter 3
 He is ordered to march around with no pants on as a punishment for being English
 Peekay has to marching around the playground for 5000 steps every afternoon
 the boys take Peekay to the war councils for torture sessions twice a week
 After the ‘torture sessions’ Peekay goes to a water fall the famous doctor previously showed him
 Judge passes arithmetic meaning he is no longer in Peekays life
 Peekay receives one last torture session and judge is making him eat human faeces
 Judge captures Granpa Chook and hangs him from a tree killing him
 Peekay then buries Granpa Chook in his coop.

Chapter 4
 Peekays Grandpa had sold his farm and moved to another town
 Peekay tells Mevrou that a dog had ate Granpa …show more content…

 Hoppie and Peekay become close and Hoppie takes Peekay to a café where he tries his first milkshake and the talk about boxing
 A waitress named ‘Anna’ flirts with Hoppie

Chapter 5
 In chapter 5 we learn a lot about Hoppie
 Hoppie takes Peekay to breakfast
 Hoppie tells Peekay he wants to marry Anna – the waitress from the café
 Hoppie takes Peekays shoes (that are way too big for him) and trade them for smaller ones
 Hoppie has a boxing match against a massive mean guy named Jackhammer
 Peekay learns about Joe Louis and how he is a black fighter who is white on the inside – Joe Louis id Hoppie’s inspiration
 Hoppie and Peekay then go off for the fight

Chapter 6
 The fight took place on a football field
Black people had to stand under the bleaches looking through the white people’s legs
 Jackhammer cheats by head-butting Hoppie, Hoppie then won but continues fighting
 Hoppie knocks out the giant meaning he has won in 14 rounds
 Hoppie tells Peekay to always first with his head
 Peekay falls asleep despite the celebration of the win

Chapter 7
 Peekay wakes up to find a goodbye letter from Hoppie and his 10 shillings
 Peekay gets a new babysitter (The Conductor) who yells at Peekay for not having his train ticket

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