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If I Can Stay Away Long Enough

Tragies karakters:
Druppeltjie en Abel kan as tragiese karakters beskou word.
Druppeltjie is 'n kind van die weemoed omdat hy gebore is uit 'n buite egtelike verhouding tussen Waterwyser du Pissani en KênsTillie.
Waterwyser, reeds 'n getroude man, was volgens die Moolmans, 'n swerwer wat nooit grond sou besit nie, en dus nie aanvaarbaar vir die Moolmans is nie.
Druppeltjie se ma, KênsTillie, was vanaf geboorte kêns.
En dus is Druppeltjie verwerp vanwee sy bedenklike bloed.
Sy oupa, Abel, het hom nooit aangesien nie.
Hy't sy oupa gevrees en Druppeltjie het altyd weggekruip as sy Abel nader gekom het.
Sy ouma, Ella, het ook nooit haar hande op haar kleinkind gelee nie, maar kinderoppassers aangestel, wat moes omsien as Tillie weggedwaal het.
Druppeltjie het die derde oog besit, wat kontak met die voorvadergeeste moontlik gemaak.
Na sy geboorte was daar vir sewe maande konstant 'n druppeltjie op sy linker wang. As 'n mens dit afgevee het, het dit weer verskyn. Volgens die mense was dit 'n teken van weemoed.
Hy't ook 'n besonder aanvoeling vir water gehad, nes sy pa wat 'n waterdwaler was.
Verder is Druppeltjie op 'n baie hartseer wyse dood, in 'n boorgat waar hy deur sy oupa die genadeskoot gegee was.
Druppeltjie word die sondebok vir 'n hele stam se sonde en skuld.
Abel Moolman kam beskou word as 'n tragiese karakter, omdat hy die swaarste moes dra aan die Moolman naam.
Hy het in sy studeerkamer gevoel hoe die voorgeslagte, StamAbel en OuAbel, hom aankla, omdat Toorberg omder hom uitgedroog het. Die boormasjien het tydelike verligting gebring van die swaar verantwoordelikheid. Ongelukkig kon die boormasjien nooit daarin slaag om water op die plaas op te spoor nie.
Verder is Abel se verhouding met sy vrou, Ella, maar stug.
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If I Can Stay Away Long Enough

Tragedy Characters:
Droplet and Abel can be considered tragic characters.
Droplet is a child of sorrow because he was born out of an extramarital affair between Waterwyser du Pissani and KênsTillie.
Waterwyser, already a married man, was, according to the Moolmans, a wanderer who would never own land, and therefore not acceptable to the Moolmans.
Droplet's mother, KênsTillie, was a child of mixed ancestry.
And so Droplet is rejected because of his dubious blood.
His grandfather, Abel, never looked at him.
He feared his grandfather, and Droplet always hid when Abel approached him.
His grandmother, Ella, also never laid her hands on her grandson, but hired nannies to look after him when Tillie wandered off.
Droplet possessed the third eye, which made contact with the ancestral spirits possible.
After his birth, there was a constant droplet on his left cheek for seven months. If one wiped it away, it would reappear. According to people, it was a sign of sorrow.
He also had a special feeling for water, like his father who was a water dowser.
Furthermore, Droplet died in a very sad way, in a borehole where his grandfather gave him the mercy shot.
Droplet becomes the scapegoat for an entire tribe's sin and guilt.
Abel Moolman can be considered a tragic character because he had to bear the heaviest burden of the Moolman name.
He felt in his study how the ancestors, StamAbel and OuAbel, accused him because Toorberg had dried out under him. The drilling machine brought temporary relief from the heavy responsibility. Unfortunately, the drilling machine was never able to locate water on the farm.
Furthermore, Abel's relationship with his wife, Ella, is but strained.
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