Chapter 4 - Meneer Vorster op die plaas

MAIN PLOT

• Brand wakes up and decides to go jogging, joined by his teacher, mr. Vorster, who stayed over at their farm. He is helping Brand's mother edit her short stories.
• On the way, they eat maroelas. You eat a maroela by biting a hole in the bottom part of the fruit and then sucking the whole fruit out of that hole.
• Brand asks mr. Vorster if all boys must play rugby and he responds by saying that it is the tradition in their community but that one should decide for themselves.
• They inject the animals on the farm. Brand learns that mr. Vorster grew up on a farm near Alldays.
• Brand thinks back on the day when he shot his first buck. He didn't really want to but no one in his class believed that he stayed on a farm and never hunted before. He was made fun of for saying that he could, but didn't want to, hunt.
• When he did in fact shoot his first buck, he felt sick and shocked. He did not feel any pride or sense of victory for his accomplishment. He realised then that the expectations of others influenced him negatively.

HOOFSTORIE

• Brand word wakker en besluit om te gaan draf. Meneer Vorster gaan draf saam met hom omdat hy oorgeslaap het op die plaas. Hy is besig om Brand se ma te help met die redigering van haar kortverhale.
• Oppad eet hulle maroela-vrugte. Jy eet 'n maroela deur die onderste pit af te byt en dan die hele vrug deur daardie gat uit te suig.
• Brand vra meneer Vorster of alle seuns veronderstel is om rugby te speel. Hy antwoord deur te sê dat hoewel dit tradisie in hulle kontrei is, dit van elke individu afhang wat hy wil doen.
• Hulle spuit die vee op die plaas in. Brand leer dat meneer Vorster op 'n plaas net buite Alldays grootgeword het.
• Brand dink terug aan die eerste keer wat hy 'n bok geskiet het. Hy wou nie regtig nie, maar die kinders in sy klas kon nie glo dat hy op 'n plaas bly en nog nooit gejag het nie. Hulle het hom gespot toe hy sê hy kon, hy wou net nie.
• Wanneer hy wel sy eerste bok geskiet het, het hy siek en geskok gevoel. Hy het geen trots of sin van oorwinning gevoel vir sy prestasie nie. Dis toe wat hy besef dat die opinie van ander hom negatief beïnvloed.