1. Wee Willie Winkie
“An officer and a gentleman”

2. Theme: Manhood
• Characterization: actions and motive
• Point of view: third person omniscient
• Plot: conflict

3. Characterization
• Wee Willie Winkie under stood the gravity of
the situation and knew she needed to be
rescued, “She must at all hazards be turned
back” (pg. 105). Wee Willie Winkie knew at all
cost that bravery and courage (which included
breaking his arrest) were needed to bring her
to safety.

4. Characterization
• When Wee Willie Winkie catches up with Miss
Allardyce and they are about to be confronted
by the Bad Men, Wee Willie Winkie says to
Mis Allardyce, “I must stay with you. My father
says a man must always look after a girl” (pg.
106). His motivation was to act as any man
would and protect a woman. This drove his
actions, he disobeyed his father and he stayed
with Miss Allardyce until they were rescued.

5. Point of view
• The narrator knows what the character is
thinking and feeling. How is the story told

6. Point of view
• Wee Willie Winkie speaks as a man and without
impediment when speaking to the Bad Men, “I am the
Colonel Sahib’s son, and my order is that you go at
once. You black men are frightening the Miss Sahib.
One of you must run into cantonments and take the
news that the Miss Sahib has hurt herself, and that the
Colonel’s son is here with her” (pg. 107). The narrator
represents Wee Willie Winkie this way not in an actual
way, but figuratively. Wee Willie Winkie is behaving
like a man by standing up and giving orders to the Bad
Men and he is represented to sound like a man as well.

7. Plot: Conflict
• Wee Willie Winkie struggles with his child like
emotions and his need to cry on occasion. He
desperately wants to be a man and knows
that crying, even when receiving a
punishment, is not becoming for a man.

8. Plot: Conflict
• When Miss Allardyce realized that she could
not get up after a fall from her horse, “She
showed a readiness to weep anew, which
steadied Wee Willie Winkie, who had been
brought up to believe that tears were the
depth of unmanliness” (pg. 106). This shows
the belief that boys and men don’t cry; only
girls can.

9. • Bravery, protecting the weak, standing up to
an enemy, and holding back emotions are all
characteristics of manhood in the Victorian
Era.

10. • In the end Wee Willie Winkie says “but you
mustn’t call me Winkie any no more. I am
Percival Will’am Willams” (pg. 109). He put to
bed his nursery rhyme nickname and grew
into his manly name.