Shortly after the beginning of the book, Peekay is put into an environment where everyone is evil, all the male childs are barbarous and bias, the grownups hate him for being smart, and because he is English. He is beaten every forenoon for wetting his bed by Mever ; Mever seems to look frontward to crushing Peekay every forenoon. The Judge merely agreed non to ache him and non do him process around the pace every bit long as Peekay could forestall him from neglecting, and one time that was done, he wouldn t halt tormenting.
In Peekay s experience with the school, the writer portrayed everyone who is non Peekay as narcissistic, bigoted, cruel, covetous, or sadistic, which he continues to make throughout the remainder of the novel. Bryce Courtenay portrays every charector in the power of one in a really misanthropic manor as an fable to all people.
On Peekay s drive place from the school, he has his first brush with a Born Again Christian. This adult male gripes about Hopie because he lost 10 dollars wagering against him and so tells another who one that betting is a wickedness. Then, when he reaches place, he finds his female parent a Born Again Christian, who has gotten rid of the first individual of all time to be nice to Peekay, his nursemaid, Mary, because she is non a Born Again Christian. She besides had gotten rid of Mary because she called on the African physician to assist Peekay with his bed-wetting job because he is heathen, and hence evil, irrespective to the service he provided to Peekay.
The fact that Peekay didn Ts like born-again Christians Doesn T portray the writer position of them. They both are against them but for different grounds. Peekay because they were against people who were nice to him, they made him travel to school, and their regulations hampered his actions. The writer displays his built-in disfavor by the lip service and self-riotousness portraiture of the characters every bit good as his overall misanthropic position on world.
Even Peekay s friends and wise mans are portrayed with overall negative charectaritics. The chief difference from the remainder is the echt attention for Peekay and the truly value him as a individual. Doc, the first friend and wise man who is the narrative a long adequate period of clip to judge his character, is really, really proud and inside condescending. But he is besides about cowardly and merely expose his defects when in a really comfortable/secure environment or when he gets angry. Geil Piet s defects are really seeable. He is one of the most influential instructors Peekay has because he teaches him how to package and truly attentions for him, yet he is in a penatentury.
