My Children! My Africa
Is there a parallel between Mr. M and his search for change through peaceful and intelligent intervention, and another most important Mr. M (Nelson Mandela)? Discuss, substantiating your answers with proof from the play."... Hope, has broken loose and his looking for food. Don't be fooled by its gentle name. It is as dangerous as Hate and Despair would be if they ever managed to break out. You think I'm exaggerating? Pushing my metaphor a little to far? Then I'd like to put you inside a black skin and ask you to keep Hope alive, find food for it on these streets where our children, our loved and precious children, go hungry and die of malnutrition. No, believe me it is a dangerous animal for a black man to have prowling around in his heart." These are the words of Mr. M also known as Anela Myalatya. He is the principal of Zolile High School. He is a very ambitious teacher who wants to change the world. The black learners in the apartheid era were suppressed by giving them a lesser education. The low standard of education was called 'Bantu Education'. When Mr. M was a young boy one of his teachers told him about the wonderful world of books, that everything in the world is recorded in books. He then decided that he wante
As young man he was summonsed by his people to create an army, Umkhonto we Siswe, the spear of the Nation. In this aspect he differs quite a bit from the Mr. M and the young inexperienced Thami shows his face. Their main task was to sabotage the state with the least violence to individuals with the most damage to the state. Mr. Mandela's eagerness to learn gave him all the knowledge he needed from books, as he as never even been a soldier, never fought a battle, never fired a gun. Now he was the commander and chief of an army. The combination of Thami and Mr. M is Nelson Mandela. One learned from the other, made mistakes and corrected them.
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Approximate Word count = 970
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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