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Character analysis.
,Asem Opsomming Jan Vermeulen
Characters:
Barries Barnard:
• Looks like his mother, grey-blue eyes, dark hair, skinny face, athletically built.
• He is rough and stronger than his mother.
• He is stubborn and does not listen to his mother about his drug abuse.
• No longer participates in sports.
• He thinks marijuana is good for you.
• Impulsive.
Floris De Kock:
• Blonde, problem skin (has pimples on his cheeks and forehead)
• Blinks a lot.
• Unsure of himself.
Theo De Kock:
• Attractive and blonde.
• Smooth tanned skin.
• Well built.
• One year older than Floris.
• Flirts with Lizette and Barries’s mother.
Lizette Kleyn:
• Dark eyes and hair, slender build.
• Sexually active.
• Likes flirting, not loyal.
• Barries’s girlfriend.
1|P age
,Asem Opsomming Jan Vermeulen
Fillie Booysen:
• Stays in a squatter house on SeePlaas.
• Becomes Barries’s friend.
Vera Barnard:
• Barries’s mom.
• Grey-blue eyes, dark hair.
• Beautiful.
Sergeant Nicolene (Nico) Schreuder:
• Works with Captain Mfeka, a policewoman.
• Blonde hair that only touches her shoulders, she is very slender.
• 24 years old
Paul Barnard:
• Barries’s father
• Owner of SeePlaas.
• Paul has long dark blonde hair, dark brown eyes and a rough face.
• He has tattoos on his upper arms.
Stef Jonker:
• Paul's friend
• Stay at SeePlaas
Olga:
• Long red-blond hair and green eyes
• 23 years old
• Stef's Girlfriend.
2|P age
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Captain Mfeka:
• Head of drugs in the police force.
• His son abused drugs
Charles De Kock:
• An attorney.
• Theo and Floris’s father
➢ Eunice Du Toit:
• 16 years old.
• The real owner of Jonah (Bart).
• Black hair and pure grey-blue eyes.
• She is blind.
• Doctor Jassie Du Toit is her father and Hermine Du Toit her mother.
Jonah:
• Was stuck in the rocks, Barries saved him.
• He is Eunice's trained guide dog.
• His real name is Bart.
• Has von willebrand disease.
• Saved Barries. (Figuratively)
• Doctor Gretha Hakinin is his Doctor.
• Labrador-golden retriever mix
Butcher:
• Owns a drugstore shop.
• He sent someone to stab Vera in the neck.
• Has a gun and everyone is afraid of him.
3|P age
, Asem Opsomming Jan Vermeulen
Chapter one
➢ Barries and his mother live together in Houghton, Johannesburg.
➢ It's Barries’s 17th birthday, he, his girlfriend and his friends want to go to the club.
➢ His friends are Theo and Floris and his girlfriend is Lizette.
➢ It's almost Christmas.
➢ Barries wants to kill his father with rat poison.
➢ Barries wants to kill his father because he never spoke to Barries for 11 years, but
on his 17th birthday, his father called.
➢ Paul always drank a lot and got drunk and hit Barries with a belt. For the rest of his
childhood, his father was absent and this made Barries very sad.
➢ Paul wants Barries to visit him on SeePlaas.
➢ Barries wants his mother's surname, Vera's surname is Nel. He wants nothing to do
with Paul.
➢ Barries was thrown out of the 1st team cricket and he does very badly in school.
He and his mother fight over this every day.
➢ Barries’s African Grey’s name is Nelson.
➢ Barries smokes a lot of marijuana.
➢ Barries wants to have sex with Lizette.
➢ Vera thinks that Barries’s friends are a bad influence on him.
➢ Theo wants to seduce Vera.
➢ Uncle Charles is a lawyer.
➢ Barries calls the two brothers the “blonde” brothers.
4|P age
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