Out Of Bound By Beverley Naidoo Character Analysis

After a period of time, people change or develop. The extent of the change varies but there is often something that makes you change. You are often faced with many of difficult situations and dilemmas. Whether it is if you should wear a different colour or if you should move to a different country. The outcome is very varied as you could change for good or bad. In the story ‘Out of Bounds’ by Beverley Naidoo, the protagonist Rohan, experiences a series of events that allow and help him develop as a character. In the story, mysterious people called squatters show up in town and continue to ask for water from residents. Rohan watches this all through the story and develops as a character because of it. This is demonstrated in thirds as the beginning, …show more content…
Rohan starts to become more interested and intrigued with the squatters. The squatters began asking for more water in the middle of the story. Rohan instantly becomes intrigued in what the squatters do. When his father and he are in the car, he sees a squatter that is selling wire cars. He takes his time in studying the boy and what he had made. In the text the author wrote ‘The queue of traffic at the crossroads slowed them down, giving Rohan more time to find the “wire car” boy. He was looking for a boy who always steered a wire car in form of him with a long handle. He was about his own age--twelve or thirteen perhaps--and very thin and wiry himself, What interested Rohan was that the boy never had the same car for more than two or three days.’. It is important to notice how the author described the boy as the author made Rohan compare the boy to himself as it says that the boy was about his own age. The text also hints that Rohan had been studying the squatters from his bedroom more frequently than at the start of the book. Rohan sees the boy again and the author wrote ‘It was the thin wiry boy, but he wasn’t pushing a car this time. He was carrying two large buckets, one on his head, the other by his side. He descended briskly down the slope turned along the road in opposite direction to that taken by the women who carried buckets on their heads.’ This shows that Rohan had seen this boy more than a few times and was able to see …show more content…
Rohan becomes conflicted, fascinated and independent. The wiry boy approaches Rohan when he is by himself. He asks for water for his mother that is having a baby. Rohan, even though he was curious, was conflicted if he would help or not. Before his mother left, she gave him strict instructions not to open the door unless it was an emergency. Rohan ponders inside this as he is conflicted if he should help or not, this is evident in this text. ‘Thus was an emergency. Not on television but right in front of him. Still Rohan hesitated. His parents would be extremely cross that he had put himself in this situation by coming to talk to the boy. Weren’t there storied of adults who used children as decoys to get people to open their gates so they could storm in?’ This shows Rohan questioning himself and worrying about the worst outcome because Rohan hesitates before helping the boy. He also quickly jumps to the conclusion that the boy may be working with someone to kidnap him. Rohan is conflicted as he is very dependant on his parents and obeys what they say. However, Rohan decides to follow the boy and gets fascinated at how the boy could hold the bucket on his head without spilling any water. In the text he says ‘How do you do that? You haven’t spilled a drop!’ Rohan is fascinated and shocked at the boy when he doesn’t spill a drop. The author accomplished this as the exclamation mark indicates that he is excited or feeling a lot