# Fris — Pelle the Conqueror character guide

> Fris in Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexø.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Old Fris

**First appearance:** 0006-iv

## Who they are

An old quarry hand whose weathered patience and hard-won knowledge give the young Pelle his first honest model of what a working man can be.

## In the story

### [The Storm and the Sacrifice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pelle_the_conqueror_se/chapters/xvii)

Teacher at the school; confiscates a pipe; reads the newspaper; tries to maintain order; comforts Ole and honors the dead son's sacrifice.

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

Old Fris is now a shadow of his former self, shaking and barely able to hold objects, but still brings the newspaper to school.

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