# Emil — Pelle the Conqueror character guide

> Emil in Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexø.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0015-xiii

## Who they are

A young boy who plays with Pelle in the village.

## In the story

### [The Lamp and the Journeyman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pelle_the_conqueror_se/chapters/x)

Completes his apprenticeship, becomes a journeyman, but fails to find steady work and ends up as a stevedore, disillusioned.

### [Chapter XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pelle_the_conqueror_se/chapters/xxii)

Mentioned as having gone to the dogs.

### [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pelle_the_conqueror_se/chapters/xxiv)

Fetches water to cool the 'Great Power's' forehead.

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