The Reservoir Characters

The narrator is a student at the local school in a mid-20th-century New Zealand village, and a member of the tightly-knit group of children that explores the surrounding wilderness. The narrator’s gender is not made… read analysis of The Narrator

The children are a group of schoolchildren in the village who play together by the gully. None of the children are distinguished from one another, and they tend to act and think as one entity… read analysis of The Children

The narrator’s mother gives orders to the narrator and her sister. She tells the narrator that the Reservoir has clean water, fulfilling some of the narrator’s curiosity, but she consistently orders the narrator to stay… read analysis of The Narrator’s Mother

The narrator’s father does not want his children near the Reservoir, though he takes a less active role in enforcing this role than the narrator’s mother, and is overall less present in the… read analysis of The Narrator’s Father