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Animal Farm Characterization (Chart) Interesting about his brilliancy. Sometimes there does seem to be a conflict between the fact that an adult writes the book and then the kid like language. But he must have been a smart kid. Plus, like the connection (and reason) to Candide. Illustration? 14/15

Discussion Prep.

POV 05-17-10 (rewriting passage in different POV) pg. 66 (when Hoppie first introduce boxing to Peekay)

I started to talk about how close I was to being a National Railway Boxing Championships. "I almost went to Cape Town last year to fight in the finals but I was beaten in the Northern Transvaal championships. Split decision, but the referee gave it to the fighter from Pretoria. I'm telling you, man, I beat the bastard fair and square. It was close, I've got to admit that, but I knew all the time I had him on points." I looked at Peekay straight into his eyes and continued talking, although he looked as if he didn't know what I was talking about. "You're almost looking at the railways boxing champion of the Tranvaal, you know." I brought my finger and thumb together in front of his face. "That close and I would have been in the National Railway Boxing Championships in Cape Town." Then Peekay asked me, "What's a boxing champion?" I was surprise by that. How can he not know about boxing champion? Does he mean he doesn't know what boxing is? But he just listened to me talking about boxing. I gave him an astonished look and said, "What a domkop you are Peekay. Don't you know what boxing is?" "No, sir," he replied, giving me an ashamed look. I think I made a mistake; Peekay is now ashamed of himself. I should tell him not to be ashamed and I should tell all about boxing to him. "It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something." I grinned. "Okay, man, settle down, make yourself at home. We're in for a long talk." "Wait a minute, Hoppie, " Peekay said excitedly. "Green or red?" he asked as he took out a sucker of each color. Peekay is a nice kid, a good friend of mine.

05-14-10
 * Passage**: The passage on pg. 67, the fourth paragraph, “stick out” for me when I was reading. I found this passage important because it was the part when Peekay first learned about boxing and he asked if he could beat up someone as big as the judge. To me this meant that Peekay wanted to revenge to the Judge.


 * Craft/6-traits**: This book is in the point of view of a little boy named Peekay and the book contains lots of languages, such as English, Afirkaan, Shangaan, etc. The author used the voice and had few strong word choices to express how Peekay felt and how he was tortured and was depressed by the mocking of other kids in the boarding school like the Judge.


 * Connection**: I see a connection between this book, Power of One, with our previous book, Things Fall Apart. The connection between them is the fact that they both take place in Africa. Things Fall Apart takes place in Nigeria and Power of One takes place in South Africa. I also see a connection between them in their thinking that the African tribes, or people, in both stories hated the whites, like English or British.