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.
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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
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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
Hoppie Groenewald, the train conductor on Peekay’s journey to his new home, has the shortest interaction with Peekay, yet has the longest-lasting effect. Peekay and Hoppie spend little more than
Bumble freaks out and blames Oliver for demoralizing everyone and punishes Dick by locking him in the cellar • In London, Mr. Bumble sees an advertisement offering five guineas for Oliver’s whereabouts • He heads to Mr. Brownlow’s home and explains how awful and how much of a thief Oliver is • Mr. Brownlow pays Mr. Bumble the money and accepts the truth about Oliver. • However Mrs, Bedwin cannot accept that Oliver is a bad child • Oliver’s name is forbidden to say Chapter 18: • Fagin tells Oliver that all the other little boys who ran away were hunged for crimes they did not commit, and he is scared for this life • However, Oliver does still not want to be a thief • Bates ad Dodger still try and convince Oliver to steal with them • His reason is there will always be pickpockets, so why not them? • Fagin tells stories of stealing, which is making stealing seem fun • New guy, Tom Chitling, just got out of jail Chapter 19: • Sikes explains to Fagin how the house is not ready to rob, and Fagin flips out • The house can still be robbed, but they would need a small boy, immediately Oliver comes to Fagin’s mind • Nancy says she is fine with it • Sikes thinks Oliver is not experienced enough yet, but he is the perfect
Charlie makes a mistake by asking Eliza, the lacrosse coaches daughter to help get Timmy on the team, but instead of helping she tells Charlie's plan and Charlie gets in trouble.
Today I will be summarizing chapter thirteen and giving my opinion about it. In chapter thirteen many things has happened, the oldest man in the village Ezedu, died. Ezedu was one of the head honcho’s of the Umuofia, therefor his funeral was a big deal. During the final salute for Ezedu at his funeral a horrible accident occurred, Ezedu’s sixteen year old son had got shot right in the heart while him and his brother was performing a dance for their father. The gun that was shot was in Okonkwo’s hand. Killing a clansman is a horrible crime but since it was obviously a accident and Okonkwo was shooting to praise Ezedu, Okonkwo only got the punishment of exile from the Umuofia villages for seven years. The seven years of Okonkwo’s exile he will
He pressed the trigger and at that moment I thought I was dead I really truly did . I never thought he 'd dare to do it but he did . I felt like I was worthless to him and he didn 't care about me at all . Thankfully he missed , or today would 've been my last day but I know that this will forever haunt me . I was shaking I couldn 't sit still but I was so thankful to the fact that I didn 't get hurt . He then heaved a heavy sigh and went away with the gun . I really truly believe in that “ A proud heart can survive a general failure , such a failure does not prick its pride “ pg.24-25
Chapter 14 Uchendu (uncle of Okonkwo ) and, the kinsmen welcome each other and begin building a compound and loaning yam seeds to every other. Farming season arrives and Okonkwo works exhaustingly, however with less energy. He has worked exhausting all his life, however currently his dream " to become one among the lords of the clan " is not possible to achieve. Uchendu acknowledges Okonkwo's disappointment; Uchendu decides to talk once his son's wedding. consequent day, Uchendu gathers the complete family and speaks to them concerning most typical names - Nneka, that means " Mother is Supreme.". Uchendu says: " A man belongs to his land and stays there once life is nice, however, he seeks refuge in his land once life is bitter and harsh .".
After Ralph leaves the party he goes to the game "Tapper" he asks the bartender if there is any game that
In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe tells a story set during the British colonialism of Nigeria in the late 19th century. Of the descriptions that Achebe makes, one of the most significant is the British District Court officers and the egwugwu. There are several superficial similarities between the District Court officers and the egwugwu. These similarities include their relationship with the people of the culture. The egwugwu are masqueraders who impersonate the gods of the Igbo culture and settle disputes of the people of Umuofia. Most of the time the impersonators are local leaders of Umuofia. While the District Court officers work in the courts of the British Empire and settle disputes of the people and enforce the laws
2. a) “War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”, Martin Luther. This statement is undoubtedly accurate; during the war, there is only chaos. Bombings, bloodshed, gunfire, deaths of innocents, to only name a few of the unthinkable acts during this time of devastation. After the Taliban had taken over, the bombing had indeed stopped, but the brutality and disorder of the war remained. Women were forced to stay in their homes, to leave what little education they had and were not allowed to go to work. They always had wear burqas when out in public, they had to learn to hold their tongues and hide their faces, because fatal and troubling consequences are happen to young
1. In her speech, Jane Fonda spoke about aging and the effect that it can have on a person. Fonda talked about “Life’s Third act” or the last three decades of a person’s life. Fonda explained that the advances in medicine and technology enabled the human race to live longer than before (Fonda, 2012). According to Fonda, humans are living on average, thirty years longer than past generations. The human life span has been extended and humans are spending a great deal of their lives in older age (Fonda, 2012). Fonda explains that we should not accept aging as a decline to our mental and physical capacity. According to her, our spirits do not age but mature over time which explains why people over the age of fifty are generally happier, less
From a young age Peekay is forced to become independent because of the isolation he faces during his first time at boarding school. This allows Peekay to spend pivotal years of his childhood forming his own opinions on his worldview and not others. This is shown when Peekay is polite to Mr. Patel despite the
Something I’ve noticed, is some people really want to pretend they have super powers. People go like “I never get sick” and that’s not true, you just have been lucky and haven’t gotten sick you mean. Or other weirdos who think they can see events in their dreams? Kinda want to do something drastic just to go like “did you foresee that? No? Because you’re narcissistic, immature and showing like you don’t have a grip.
Mr. Bumble agrees to take the man back to somebody (his wife) who talked to Sally while she was dying
Well written literary novel Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, provides extraordinary insight in what hard work can do against the inevitable. In the fictional tribe of Umuofia, the main character, Okonkwo, constantly denies the cultural expected response when exposed to severe scenarios. While the majority of the Umuofia inhabitants run on the "Chi" ( a religious tied self-gauge on ones' own fortune/luck). Okonkwo ignores the consequence of his actions and proceeds to believe that he have control over the outcome of events in his life. The first example would be Ikemefuna's death in chapter seven. Although the elder of the village tells Okonkwo that he doesn't need to participate in killing his son, he does it anyway (even
The Earth is seen as something holy by the Igbo people, something so pure and majestic that it is bigger than all of them, and this is exactly what they believe in; the Gods of Nature. But they also believe in themselves, in their own Chi and their own achievements. The themes in this book are mostly based on cultural aspects like religion, traditions and gender roles and give us a detailed insight in to the Igbo culture. Things fall apart is a cultural record, as we get to experience the Igbo culture from a very personal point of view; Okonkwo, a man who is very respectable within the tribe and is able to give us a diverse perspective on things, the reader gets to know the culture by seeing how everyday life goes and how the Igbo people think. The symbolism in this story influences big part of who these people are and how they see the world, as well as the fact that the clan has a very strong bond with Mother Nature.