Summary My Children My Africa Grade 12 (Athol Fugard book)
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Course
English First Additional Language
Institution
12th Grade
As jy ons kies, sal jy toegang hê tot hoëgehalte-opsommings, skryfstukke en werkopdragte wat spesifiek vir Graad 07 tot 12 leerders ontwerp is. Ons span ervare skrywers en opvoeders verseker dat alle materiaal akkuraat, boeiend en in lyn is met kurrikulumstandaarde is. Daarbenewens bied ons meded...
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Main characters ............................................................................................................................... 2
Themes and evidence of themes in text .......................................................................................... 5
Style and structure ........................................................................................................................... 7
Setting and background information ................................................................................................ 9
Scene by scene analysis................................................................................................................ 10
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, Main characters
Mr M (Anela Myalatya)
Important actions
• Invites Camdeboo Girls' High for a debate at Zolile High in Brakwater.
• Invites Isabel and Thami to enter the literature competition as a team and provides training.
• Refuses to listen to Thami's political perspective.
• Informs the police about the activists organizing the school boycott, revealing their names.
• Is killed by a mob for being perceived as a collaborator with the government.
Relationships
• He has limited close relationships.
• He resides alone in a room within Rev Mbopa's house.
• Thami is his favored student, and he places all his aspirations and ambitions on him.
• His desire is for Thami to obtain a scholarship to attend university.
Personality traits
• He possesses qualities such as intelligence, respect, hard work, dedication, enthusiasm, and
passion.
• He holds an authoritative and traditionalist stance.
• He values respect for authority and strongly dislikes lawlessness.
• He believes in the transformative power of words and education.
• He displays stubbornness and rejects the ideas of the younger generation regarding revolution.
Physical description
• He is 57 years old.
• He wears glasses.
Changes
• Starts dignified and in control.
• Becomes angrier and upset during the school boycott.
• Eventually loses control and informs on the activists.
• Regrets actions leading to the arrest of Thami's comrades.
• Some believe he gives himself up due to regret.
• Stays loyal to his belief in learning and dialogue as the legitimate form of struggle.
• Refuses to join the protests.
Thami Mbikwana
Important actions
• Participates in a debate with Isabel.
• Forms a partnership with Isabel for the literature quiz and practices together.
• Develops anger towards the inequality and brutality of Apartheid and Bantu Education.
• Joins the school boycott as an act of protest.
• Alerts Mr. M about potential danger due to his act of informing on others.
• Offers to lie in order to protect Mr. M.
• Leaves the country to join the armed struggle against the oppressive regime.
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