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Forced to carry
passbooks with them
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"The
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Short introduction and description of the main and
important minor character(s) mentioned in the short story
Main character(s)
Important minor
character(s)
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Main
character(s) Jacob
Peters:
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he
is nine years old (he turns ten at the end of the story)
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one
sister (Lisa)
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he
lives with his family in Johannesburg
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has
an ordinary childhood like every child over the world till the
day, his father is registrated as black, the day when apartheid
gripped him "fully by the throat for the first time"
(p.15 in the first two lines)
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he
is fascinated by "The Lone Ranger", an action hero;
Jacob wants to have an outfit just like the one the "Lone
Ranger" wears
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he
has two best friends: Omar and Billy, who live in the same
neighbourhood as Jacob
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he
has to move with his family to Coronationville because of a new
law
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he
learns from his Uncle Richard about apartheid and its laws
Mrs.
Betty Peters:
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married
to Joseph Peters
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one
son (Jacob), one daughter (Lisa)
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her
husband's brother Richard lives with her family in one house
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she
is working from home as a seamstress; she has white customers to
whose houses she goes to collect and deliver orders
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she
worries too much about everything; she winds herself up quickly
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she
doesn't want to be discriminated against because she is coloured,
but sometimes she puts herself on a higher level than a black
person is
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she
looks up to the white people, and doesn't want them to think bad
about her family
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she
thinks that attending political meetings can't change
anything
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she
and her brother-in-law often have arguments about their
situation caused by the apartheid
Joseph
Peters:
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Mrs.
Peter's husband
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one
younger brother (Richard)
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he
has a calm temper
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he
is the superviser in a factory
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he
is coloured but gets registrated as black; he has to carry a
passbook with him (cf. picture)
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his
grandfather came from Europe and his grandmother from Africa
Important minor
character(s)
Uncle
Richard:
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he
is the younger brother of Joseph Peters
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he
lives with his brother and his family in one house; he shares a
room with Jacob
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he
had been a teacher in Cape Town but lost his job
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he
had black friends and that was one reason for losing his job
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Jacob
describes his uncle as a firecracker (p. 21)
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he
fights for the rights of the coloured and black people
written
by Karen
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