1. Charcaters
1.1. Trevor
1.1.1. Random facts
1.1.1.1. Went to church every sunday
1.1.1.2. He ones shitted in the kitchen
1.1.1.3. He ones filled a flowerpot with gunpowder and set it on fire. The whole thing exploded and he lost both of his eyebrows and a littel bit of hair.
1.1.1.4. He ate like a pig and everybody in his family thought he had worms or become obessed because he ate so much.
1.1.2. Education / School
1.1.2.1. He attended a private catholic school called Maryvale College until the end of the sixth grade
1.1.2.1.1. It was a school full of discipline
1.1.2.1.2. If you offens somebody a littel bity they washed your mouth out with soap. For serious offenses you would have to go to the principal's office
1.1.2.1.3. Because Trevor was hyperactive, he had to go to the psychologist three times.
1.1.2.2. After the end of grade six he went to H. A. Jack Primary school, which was a government school.
1.1.2.2.1. At first he attended the A class, but after he realised that all of his friends were in the B class, he changed to the B class.
1.1.2.2.2. In the A class were mostly withe people, tow other black children and one Indian child. In B class were more or less only black children.
1.1.2.3. He visited high school
1.1.2.4. The first book he read was the Bible
1.1.2.5. He learned sveral languages
1.1.2.5.1. Englisch
1.1.2.5.2. Xhosa
1.1.2.5.3. Zulu
1.1.2.5.4. Tswana
1.1.3. His childhood
1.1.3.1. He was born on February 20, 1984
1.1.3.2. He was an enourmous baby
1.1.3.3. Because of his chocolate milke skin, he was treated withe by everybody around him.
1.1.3.3.1. He wouldn't get slapped
1.1.3.3.2. He could get away with things his cousins could never get away wit
1.1.3.3.3. The others were blamed for things Trevor comitted
1.1.3.4. The relationship with his mother was like the relationship between a cop and a criminal, they're bitter rivals but they respect each other
1.1.4. Character
1.1.4.1. He was a naughty child
1.1.4.2. Voracious
1.1.4.3. He was hyperactive
1.1.4.3.1. He craved constant stimulation and activity
1.1.4.3.2. The old nanies how used to look after him were left in tears as well as his schoolteachers because he was so wild and active
1.1.4.3.3. Whenever he wasn't burn out, he's hyperactivity would turn into misbehaviour and naughtiness
1.1.4.3.4. His mother used to go to the park to burn him out and get ride of his energy
1.1.4.4. He creats chaos to see how people react
1.1.5. What he loves and hates
1.1.5.1. Hates
1.1.5.1.1. Hates secondhand cars
1.1.5.2. Loves
1.1.5.2.1. He loves videogames, espacially "Street Fighter"
1.1.5.2.2. He loves to read, he consumed boxes of books.
1.1.5.2.3. Fire
1.1.5.2.4. Firework
1.1.5.2.5. Knives: He collected them from pawnshops and garages sales.
1.1.6. Silly things he did
1.1.6.1. He once filled a gardening pot with gun powder and set it on fire. The whole thing exploded, his eyebrows and a littel part of his hair was gone
1.1.6.2. He once drankn all of the grape juce and ate all the bread at church without shearing with the others
1.1.6.3. He played with fire and set a little hous on fire
1.1.6.4. He laught when his teacher hit him because his mother hit him much harder
1.1.6.5. When there was a school concert, he filled the piano with the foame from the fireextinguster. When they played the piano it kind a exploded
1.1.6.6. He removed all the lences from the projectors at school.
1.1.7. Background informations
1.1.7.1. He's a mixed child and that's illegal
1.1.7.2. Grew up during apartheid
1.1.7.3. His mother lied during his birth and told the doctor that he was born in KaNgwane because she couldn't tell that she sleept with a withe man.
1.1.7.4. His name mean nothing.
1.1.8. Specific years in Trevor's childhood
1.1.8.1. Five years old
1.1.8.1.1. When Trevor was 5 years old, Nelson Mandela was released from prison
1.1.8.2. Seven years old
1.1.8.2.1. He and his mother would have fights communicating throug letters and Trever coould tell by how the letter was written if his mother was angry or really angry.
1.1.8.2.2. His mother dated Abel
1.1.8.3. Nine years old
1.1.8.3.1. His mother throw him out of a moving car because they were sort of kidnapped
1.1.8.4. After they moved to Eden park
1.1.8.4.1. His mother brought home two cats, black cats. He was really excited, because he never had a pet befor and his mother was exciteted becaus she loved animals. One day he and his mother came home and the cats were dead. Somebody chopped their head off. On the front wall of their home had someone written Heks, witch means witch.
1.1.8.4.2. After their two cats died, they got two dogs. A lady from the mothers work place had ppuppies. It was a mix between a Maltese poodle an a bull terrier. The two dogs where named Fufi and Panter
1.1.8.5. Thirteen
1.1.8.5.1. His father moved to Cape Town and they lost touch because Abel didn't liked it, when Trevor visited his Dad. Sometimes he could visit him, when his mother sneaked him over to his dad.
1.1.8.5.2. His mother married Abel
1.1.8.5.3. He became a teenager and computergames ect. were more important then his family.
1.1.8.6. His early twenties
1.1.8.6.1. After high school, he became a comedian
1.1.8.6.2. His career was a real success
1.1.8.7. Twenty-four
1.1.8.7.1. His mother made him track down his father Robert after all this years. finding him was a hard work
1.1.9. His career after high school
1.1.9.1. He became a comedian
1.1.9.1.1. His career as a comedian took off really quick and he got in the radio and he hosted a kid's adventure reality show on TV.
1.1.9.1.2. He held his shows at clubs all over the country
1.2. Trevor's baby brother Andrew
1.2.1. He's nine months old
1.3. Trevor's mother / Patricia Nombuyiselo Noha
1.3.1. Religion
1.3.1.1. She went to tree churches every sunday.
1.3.1.1.1. Jubilant church
1.3.1.1.2. Analytical church
1.3.1.1.3. Passionate, cathartic church
1.3.1.2. She's very religious and gos to church every sunday
1.3.1.3. Very Christian
1.3.2. How she educated Trevor / Trevor's Education
1.3.2.1. She spoke to Trevor like he was an adult and she wanted to free his mind. She raised him like there were no limits and he could do whatever he e^wants.
1.3.2.2. She wished a child like a partner, but became Trevor. She told him, that she gave birth to the most selfish piece f shit on earth and all Trevor ever did was cry, eat and shit.
1.3.2.3. Whenever Trevor would ran away from her, she would yell "Stop, thief" and everybody would try and stop him
1.3.2.4. On day, Trevor wouldn't stop asking about a toffed appel and after the grocerice, she allowed him to take on but at the ceckout, she refused to pay and said she wasn't the mother of him. She thought him a lesson because he wouldn't shut up about the apple.
1.3.2.5. She educted him with discipline and love and never out of rage or anger.
1.3.3. Character
1.3.3.1. She's very stubborn
1.3.3.2. Religious
1.3.3.3. She was a problem child / a rebell
1.3.3.4. She's very brave
1.3.3.5. She was a rebel
1.3.3.6. Wild
1.3.3.7. Wants to be free all the time
1.3.3.8. She always give people what they need and gives what she can
1.3.4. Job / Education
1.3.4.1. She took a secretarial cours and a typing class, even it was considert impossible for a black women
1.3.4.2. Speaks Zulu, Xhosa, German, Afrikaans, Sotho
1.3.5. Live befor Trevor was born
1.3.5.1. She lived with Trevor's grandmother in Soweto
1.3.5.2. She has an older sister and a younger brother. She was the middel child, unwanted.
1.3.5.3. Twenty-tow
1.3.5.3.1. She run away from home and lived in downtown Johannesburg, even thoug it was illegal
1.3.5.3.2. The prostitute in Johannesburg thought her how to survive, showed her how she could walk around without getting questioned and they introduced her with withe men.
1.3.5.3.3. She lived in a secret flat in Hillbrow, where she had room number 203, down the corridor lived her futur boyfriend, in room 206
1.3.5.3.4. She was always out at some clubs, some partys, dancing, meeting people
1.3.6. The live with Robert
1.3.6.1. She never married him
1.3.6.2. He allowed the contact between Trevor and him, but when she married Abel, she forbitten the contact between him and Trevor. She also lost contact to hiim, because Abel wouldn't like it.
1.3.7. Random fact
1.3.7.1. She owns an ancient, broken-down Volkswagen Beetle
1.3.7.2. She's a horrible cook
1.3.7.3. She's a Xhosa women and she's black
1.3.7.4. Her name means "She who gives back"
1.3.7.5. She married Abel
1.4. Trevor's father / Robert
1.4.1. His live without Trevor
1.4.1.1. Befor Trevor was born
1.4.1.1.1. His Swiss / German and grow up somewhere in Switzerland
1.4.1.1.2. He has an older sister
1.4.1.1.3. He worked as a chef in Montreal and New York befor he moved to South Africa in the late 1970s. He worked for a industrial food-service company.
1.4.1.1.4. He opened a restaurant in the early eighties, befor Trevor was born. It was the first intergrated restaurant in johanisburg, which means black and withe people where allowed in the restaurant. It was a steakhouse. He applied for a special license so he was able to serve to withe and black customers. The restaurant was a booming success. The restaurant only closed because a few people from the neigberhood started complaining. They filled a petition and the government shuted the restaurant down.
1.4.1.2. When Trevor was alive, but they had no contact
1.4.1.2.1. He moved to Camps Bay, where he met Trevor when he was twenty-four and he pushed seventy at that point
1.4.1.2.2. After Apartheid, he moved from Hillbrown to Yeoville, a formerly quiet, residential neigberhood, where all kinds of people lived. He lived in the Yeo Street next to the incredible park. His house was simple
1.4.1.2.3. He made a scrapbook of everything Trevor had done, every time Trevor's name was mentioned in a newspaper. Everything from the begin of Trevor's carreer all the way to the week they met.
1.4.1.2.4. Then he moved to Caoe Town and he and Trevor lost touch with each other
1.4.2. Character
1.4.2.1. Quite
1.4.2.2. Reserved
1.4.2.3. Rational
1.4.2.4. Misterious
1.4.2.5. Extremly frugal
1.4.2.6. Very Swiss
1.4.2.7. Clean
1.4.2.8. Particualr
1.4.2.9. Precise
1.4.2.10. He loves traveling, entertaining and having people over, but at the same time he also loves his privacy
1.4.2.11. He hates racism and homogeneity more then anything and racism never made any sens to him
1.4.3. Apperance
1.4.3.1. Tall
1.4.3.2. Brown hair
1.4.3.3. Brown eyes
1.4.4. His live with Trevor
1.4.4.1. Trevor's childhood
1.4.4.1.1. He couldn't be seen with Trevor and if Trevor yelled Daddy in the park, he run away otherwise he would got arrested.
1.4.4.1.2. He had to walk on the other side of the street when they went out together because he was withe.
1.4.4.1.3. Trevor visited him every Sunday afternoon
1.4.4.1.4. He would cook for Trevor and he wished always the same meal, Rösti
1.4.4.1.5. Trevor celebrated his birthday every year with his dad and they spent Christmas with each other as well. He loved Christmas with his dad, because he celebrated it the European way with a tree, lights, fake snow, snow globes and presents from Santa Clause.
1.4.4.2. Trevors teenager years with Robert
1.4.4.2.1. When Trevor was thirteen, he moved to Cape Town and they lost touch, because Adel couldn't stand it out, that Trevor had contact with his real father.
1.4.4.3. When Trevor was an adult
1.4.4.3.1. When Trevor turned twenty-four, he tracked Robert down and met him finally after a ten year gap.
1.4.5. His relationship with Patrica
1.4.5.1. When he meet Trevors mother, she was 24 and he was 46
1.4.5.2. He never married her or anybody else
1.4.5.3. They lived in a seperated house even when the Apartheid had fallen.
1.5. Abel
1.5.1. The family live with Trevor and his mother
1.5.1.1. The new boyfriend of Trevor's mother
1.5.1.2. Trevor's mother and Abel married each other, when Trevor was thirteen.
1.5.1.3. He couldn't stand out the thought that Trevor's mother was being in contact with her previous love, so they lost contact.
1.5.1.4. He was alcoholic and abusive
1.5.2. He lived in Orange Grove in a withe familys garage
1.6. Fufi and Panther
1.6.1. They were the dogs from Trevor and his mother. They came to this house after the two black cats where murdered.
1.6.2. Fufi
1.6.2.1. Fufi belonged to Trevor and was a girl
1.6.2.2. She was beautiful, because of her clean lines and her happy face.
1.6.2.3. Fufi was deaf
1.6.2.4. She was allowed to sleep in Trevors bed.
1.6.2.5. She could jump really high and she jumped every day over the wall from the garden and waited for Trevor and his mother ti arrive.
1.6.2.6. Through the day, she would jump over the wall and walk around in the neigberhood. Then she would jump over another wall into the garden of an other house. That's when it turned out, that Fufi was selled twic. Through the day, she would visit the other family and in the evening and the morning she would be with Trevor. Becuase the other family didn't believed that Fufi belonged to Trevor, Trevor's mother bought him for 100 bucks and then they left.
1.6.2.7. Trevor said Fufi was his first heartbreak because she loved the other boy, form the other house, as well.
1.6.2.8. She died when a burglar was trying to break into Trevors house. The burglar pushed the gate over and it felt on Fufis back and broke her spine. Trevor and his mother took her to the vet, but she had to be put down.
1.6.3. Panther
1.6.3.1. Panter was the mom's dog
1.6.3.2. Panter was wierd looking and had a scruffy look.
1.7. Trevor's mother sister and brother
1.7.1. They both stayed in Soweto and were wanted
1.8. Trevor's grandmother / Frances Noha
1.8.1. A Xhosa women
1.8.2. She is also very religious and balanced her Christianty with the traditional Xhosa beliefs.
1.8.3. Lived in Orlando East in a tow-room house.
1.8.4. She ran the house, looked after the kids, cooked, cleaned
1.8.5. The married in Sophiatown, but were dorve out one year later by the army.
1.8.6. Apperance
1.8.6.1. She is barly 5 feet tall
1.8.6.2. Hunched over from her work in the factory
1.8.7. Character
1.8.7.1. Rock hard
1.8.7.2. Very active and very much alive even these days.
1.8.7.3. Calm
1.8.7.4. Calculating
1.9. Trevor's grandfather / Temperance Noah
1.9.1. He was his only semi-regular male figure in his childhood / live
1.9.2. He was divorced from his grandmother and didn't lived with them.
1.9.3. His nickname was "Tat Shisha" which translates to "The smokin got grandpa"
1.9.4. He is big
1.9.5. Character
1.9.5.1. He was loud and boisterous
1.9.5.2. He's bipolar
1.9.5.3. He's kind a casanova because the ladys loved him and he loved the ladys.
1.10. Trevor's great-grandmother / Koko
1.10.1. Lived with Trevor ect. as well
1.10.2. Colud barly walk
1.10.3. Always sat in the kitchen next to the coal stove with a long skirt, head scarves and blankets over her shoulder.
1.10.4. Character
1.10.4.1. Stooped
1.10.4.2. frail
1.10.5. Apperance
1.10.5.1. Super old
1.10.5.2. She is so blind that her eyes had gone withe and were clouded
1.11. Trevor's aunt / Sibongile
1.11.1. Lived with Trevor, his mother ect.
1.11.2. Dinky is her husband
1.11.3. Big chested
1.11.4. Character
1.11.4.1. She's a powerhouse
1.11.4.2. She is strong in every way
1.11.4.3. The mother hen in the family
1.12. Trevor's uncle / Velile
1.12.1. Was the younger brother of Trevor's mother
1.12.2. Lived by the grandmother, Trevor ect.
1.12.3. He was unwanted. Because of that, his name mean "He who popped out of nowhere"
1.12.4. Spended most of his time at the local tavern getting into fights.
1.13. Trevor's cousin / Mlungisi
1.13.1. His name mean "The Fixer"
1.13.2. He helped Trevor to set a greenpot filled with gunpowder on fire and when it exploded, he screamed.
1.14. Dinky
1.14.1. Has tow children together with Sibongile
1.14.2. He's dinky like his name
1.14.3. He was small
1.14.4. He is some sort of abusive, but Sibongile would smack him down and put him back in his place
1.15. Queen
1.15.1. She was a women of color
1.15.2. She lived in the same block as Trevor and his mother.
1.15.3. Trevors mother would alwasy invite her to go to the park with them and Queen would act like she's the mother from Trevor
1.16. Theesan Pillay
1.16.1. The Indian kid in the A class
2. Religion
2.1. Christanity
2.2. The traditional Xhosa belief
2.2.1. They communicat with thier ancestors and spirits.
3. Socity / People
3.1. The black people
3.1.1. The whole neiberhood would try to cautch a thief and they ues to tackel the thief down.
3.1.2. You wouldn't dare to own a black cat in a black neigberhood, because it would meen that you are a witch. It would be suicide.
3.1.3. Meat was luxury for them
3.1.4. Zulus
3.1.4.1. Iwisa
3.1.4.1.1. Its a larg, traditional weapon
3.1.4.2. The Zulu women were well behaved and dutiful
3.1.5. Xhosas
3.1.5.1. Xhosa women were promiscuous and unfaithful
3.1.5.2. They would give thier children meaningfull names and the meaning of the name would be happening.
3.2. The withe people
3.2.1. They could basicaly do what they wanted
4. Apartheid
4.1. Bloodless Revolution
4.1.1. Many black people died during this revolution and only a few withe people were killed.
4.1.2. The name "Bloodless" is right out of the perspective of the withe people, but from the view of the black people it's complitly wrong.
4.1.3. Thousands were killed
4.1.4. Necklacing was common
4.1.4.1. People were put in rubber tires, their arms would be pinning, the rubber tier would be overspilled with petrol and then the tier and the human inside would be set on fire
4.2. The live during apartheid
4.2.1. Township
4.2.1.1. Blacks had to be back home in the township to certain hours or they could get arrested
4.2.1.2. To leave the township for some reason, black people had to carry a pass or ID number or they could get arrested.
4.2.1.3. Many black women became a prostitute.
4.2.2. Job / Work between black and withe people
4.2.2.1. Black people jobs
4.2.2.1.1. During apartheid, black man worked on a farm, in a factory or in a mine
4.2.2.1.2. Women worked as a maid or in a factory
4.2.2.1.3. Black people didn't worked in offices
4.2.2.2. White people jobs
4.2.2.2.1. White-collar jobs and skilled-labor jobs were reserved for withe people by law
4.2.2.3. In the 1980s black people were allowed to work in low-level withe-collar jobs.
4.2.3. Homeland
4.2.3.1. Black people were deportet to the homeland
4.2.4. Public transport system
4.2.4.1. During apartheid black people weren't allowed to use the public transport system, thats why the black people created their own system.
4.2.4.2. The black transporting system was run by the Xhosas and the Zulus and it was outside of the law.
4.2.4.3. Diffrent groups ran diffrent routes and they would fight and even kill over who controlled witch route.
4.2.4.4. Drivers who steal a route would get killed.
4.2.5. Restaurants
4.2.5.1. Most restaurants where only for withe people
4.2.5.2. If you wanted to serve to black people as well, you had to apply for a license that allows you to serve to black and withe people
4.2.6. Birth
4.2.6.1. The government labeled everything on your birth certificate: race, tribe, nationality usw.
4.2.6.2. One of the worst crimes you could comit during the apartheid was having a sexual relation with a person of another race. So black people weren't allowed having kids with with people
4.2.7. Withe and black areas
4.2.7.1. White
4.2.7.1.1. You rarely see the police and if you see an Officer, his a friendly one in his collared shirt and pressed pants.
4.2.7.2. Black
4.2.7.2.1. In black areas the police was an occupying army. They were militarized and wore riot gears.
4.2.7.2.2. Crowded
4.3. Architectur
4.3.1. Cities, like Soweto, where espacially designed for black people. The city was build up, so it was way more easy to lock the whole city up or bombed everyting.
4.4. Reform / Changing
4.4.1. In the early 1980s, the gouvernment began making reforms. For example: Black people were allowed to work in low-level withe-collar jobs.
4.4.2. When apartheid came to an end, elite private scools started to accept children of colors.
4.5. The ultimate goal from apartheid was to make Soouth Africa a withe country
5. Villages
5.1. Hillbrow
5.1.1. Trevors mother and hiis father lived there for quite some time
5.1.2. Many Germans or Dutchs lived in this area
5.1.3. It was a thriving scene, cosmopolitan and liberal.
5.1.4. Galleries and underground theaters where artists and performers critizesed the government were located in this town.
5.1.5. They were many restaurants, nightclubs, which were foreign-owned.
5.1.6. The Hillbrow Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Africa, where located in Hillbrow
5.2. Soweto
5.2.1. Trevors grandmother and his mother lived together in Soweto
5.2.2. Soweto is designed to be bomed
5.2.3. Tow roads were for in and out. It's because the military could easy lock the people in, quell a rebellion or even bomb the whole city, if the rebellion would go to crazy.
5.2.4. Towns
5.2.4.1. Meadowlands
5.2.4.1.1. Trevor's grandparents were forcibly relocated to this part of Soweto after they were drove out by the army.
5.2.4.2. Eden Park
5.2.4.2.1. It's a colord neigberhood were Trevors mother once lived.
5.2.5. Infrastructure
5.2.5.1. They were no bars, restaurants, clubs ect.
5.2.5.2. A black market rose up because the people weren't able to shop properly
5.2.5.3. Minimal electricity
5.2.5.4. No paved roads
5.2.5.5. Ther was no running water in the hous and an outdoor toilet was shared by six or seven houses
5.2.6. Socity
5.2.6.1. The womens were very strong and powerd. They would doused their men in boiling water or oil if they had enough from them.
5.2.6.2. Soweto was a city on itseld, with a population of nearly one million
5.3. Johannesburg
5.3.1. Joubert Park
5.3.1.1. Trevor and his mother used to play together in the park
5.3.1.2. It's like the Central Park of Johannesburg
5.3.1.3. ther is a beautiful garden, a zoo, a giant cheesboard with human-sized pieces.