English Literature Notes

Set in England.

Wormsley Common Gang.

Mike, Trevor (T), Blackie, Summers, Mr Thomas (Old Misery), Lorry Driver.

Trevor is an upper class name so he goes by T.

Met in car park where bomb was dropped during the Blitz (bombing of England in World War 1).

Mr Thomas’s house is between two bomb sites. It is a beautiful house.

Believed Smarties were a bribe.

Planned to see how many free rides they could get. They didn’t end up doing this.

T toured Mr Thomas’s house.

Mr Thomas went on holiday for the August Bank Holiday.

Planned to destroy Mr Thomas’s house from the inside to create a reputation for the gang.

Mike’s mom was sick and his dad didn’t want to go to church so he snuck off to Mr Thomas’s house.

Doesn’t hate Mr Thomas.

Mr Thomas came back early because it was too cold and wet.

Lured Mr Thomas to the outhouse by saying someone was trapped in there and then they locked him in.

They gave Mr Thomas a blanket and some food.

Lorry drivers backed into the house making it collapse.

Lorry driver freed Mr Thomas and found the house collapsing funny.

Oom Schalk Lourens.

There are two types of leopards, one has more spots.

Set in Limpopo veld.

Met a leopard while napping after looking for cattle.

Shady under Withaak trees.

Looked for cattle for an hour.

Boot looked like Abjaterskop.

Vulture flew above.

Says he doesn’t loaf around the house yet he’s lying outside.

Far humming.

Leopard sniffing from his boot to his face.

Thinks if he plays dead the leopard will lose interest.

Worried about being judged for his tattered pants and blue flannel shirt.

Leopard growled and know hat off.

Leopard lay next to Oom like a dog.

Told people the story in Fanie Snyman’s voorkamer (used as a post office).

Koos Van Tonder.

Got up and left to escape leopard.

Frans Welman.

Krisjan Lemmer (Serial Liar).

Krisjan winked at Oom, means he thinks he’s lying.

Krisjan told story about mamba named Hans that went to church but hated the Garden of Eden story (lie).

No one believed in the leopard.

Thought human turned into a leopard (spook/ghost).

Leopard seen on the road near the poort and prints were found near water holes.

Leopard was shot at but escaped unharmed.

Found leopard lying in original place.

Leopard was dead, bullet hole was visable.

In summer, when he was 16.

Just moved.

Friends: Freddy Gray and J.D.

Liked Willadean Wills. She was good at sports (stopped playing), tall and slender and she walked nicely.

Scared of Mr Wills, he was big with fierce eyes, heavy brow and he was a great farmer.

Mr Wills was good at growing watermelons.

Wasn’t seen as stealing to take a watermelon.

Mr Wills had a massive melon, 3x the size of a normal melon.

Mrs Wills was very sick.

Night of a full moon, they were out swimming.

Mr Wills’ gun was full of buckshot (can kill someone).

Decided to steal melon.

Crawled to the melon, pushed the melon away.

Melon was delicious. They didn’t finish it all.

Mr Wills screamed when he noticed the missing melon. Crushed all of the other melons and cried.

Gathered seeds to give back to Mr Wills.

Admitted he stole it.

Sick wife wanted to share it with the neighbourhood.

Offered to help plant.

Spence Olham, worked for 10 years.

Outspacers = The enemies.

Sutton Wood is on fire.

Westinghouse Labs.

Nelson is friend/collegue.

‘The Project’ is a secret.

Major Peters works for government (FSA).

Believe Olham is a spy in disguise.

Believes the spy is a robot with a

U-bomb attached.

Want to detonate U-bomb on the Moon to protect everyone.

Robot would have false memory and wouldn’t know he is a robot.

Believes U-bomb will detonate using a certain phrase.

Olham tricks everyone into believing he is going to detonate then stealing the ship and going back to Earth.

Olham called his wife, she thinks he’s a robot but doesn’t tell him this.

Wants an X-ray to prove he isn’t a robot.

Olham was chased.

He went to Sutton Wood because he believes the ship carrying the robot crashed and the robot died there.

Find the body.

Believe they see a bomb in the body, on closer inspection it’s a knife.

‘Olham’ explodes.