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MHatB, Themes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Alcoholic, bad health dad
  - - - Hitting Hilda -> Stopping Sam from hitting Hally
    - - Illogical justification for accusation
      - Treats women badly - violent
- - - - creating contrast, drama,escalation of conflict
  - - - Stage direction intro
        
        He wears the white coat of a waiter. Behind him on his knees, mopping down the floor with a bucket of water and a rag, is Willie.
        
        Working for White, white are superior
        
        Leaning on the solitary table
        
        institutionalized racism : unable to sit in white peoples position (hally's chair)
      - Before Hally comes in
        
        Music - part of black identity
        
        Dancing
        
        Boet Sam
        
        Black community closeness
        
        Pride in culture
        
        Constrasts to Hally wanting them to call him master - white superiority theme, sense of distance, alienation
      - Hally enters
        
        supportive and appreciative of dancing
        
        contrasts with the end
        
        Respect in relationship between Sam and Hally
        
        "Mr Sam Samela"
        
        defies racist background
        
        "[Springing to attention like a soldier and saluting.] At your service, Master Harold!"
        
        Jokey, friendly
        
        hint towards submissive relationship, where Willie understands Hally's position
        
        "Sam has fetched a towel for Hally to dry his hair. "
        
        Parental figure
        
        " But it's Thursday. There's no visiting on Thursday afternoons. Is my Dad okay"
        
        caring, role reversal
    - - Mood change after Hally hears about his father coming home - solemn - indicates temperamental
      - [Examining the comics.] Jungle Jim . . . Batman and Robin . . . Tarzan . . . [Gosh], what rubbish!
        Mental pollution. Take them away.
        
        indicates relationship between his dad and him is complex
        
        contrasts to Sam's other interest in ballroom dancing
      - "Act your bloody age! [Hurls the rag back at Willie.] Cut out the nonsense now and get on with your work. And you too, Sam. Stop fooling around. "
        
        Hally and Willie immature - easily tempered
        
        ironic because hally is younger - disrespectful
      - No reply, chaps. And you know why? Because she's at his bedside in hospital helping him pull through a bad turn. You definitely heard wrong.
        
        Lacks trust / doubting intelligence of Sam
        
        Sam accepts Hallys temperement
        
        indicates sense of racism, where black people have to accept white actions
      - "Old Fart face Prentice"
        
        Hally has high ego, thinks he is smarter than teachers
        
        Disrespectful
      - When the magistrate sentences you to "strikes with a light cane." they make you lie down on a bench. One policeman pulls down your trousers and holds your ankles, another one pulls your shirt over your head and holds your arms .
        
        Sam is accepting of this -> suggests he accepts the fact that it has been institutionalized
        
        Hally does not want to hear about it - does not like cruelty of treatment of blacks
      - I know, I know! I oscillate between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam. But things will change, you wait and see. One day somebody is going to get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going again.
        
        Pretentious, acting smart, dramatic
      - Men of Magnitude discussion
        
        Hally correcting Sam - Hally teaching SamΩ
        
        Sam is intelligent and can read well, whilst Hally is trying to educate sam. subtle racial tension
        
        Failing a maths exam isn't the end of the world, Sam. How many times have I told you that examination results don't measure intelligence?
        
        rationalizing his failures
        
        he believes he has high intelligence
        
        overconfident
        
        Trying to be pretentious, forcibly using big words, bragging about his academic achievements
        
        Napolean is not a man of magnitude because he doesnt want to study him
        
        Charles Darwin : Hally is focused on science and rationality
        
        Hally feels intellectually superior
        
        "Intellectually outraged"
        
        "bigotry" (insulting Sam when he does not agree with im.)
        
        Abraham Lincoln : hally dismissive of hally intellect and experiences with racism
        
        William Shakespeare : black people have less access to education, but more enthusiasm.
        
        Winston Churchill, Tolstoy : both failed schol
        
        Hally dislikes debating about religion : close-minded, dismisses Sam's ideas
        
        "It's deeply gratifying, Sam, to know that I haven't been wasting my time in talking to you. [Strutting around proudly.] Tolstoy may have educated his peasants, but I've educated you" Parralelsim (indicates disrespect, arrogance)
      - recreating, reminiscing Hally memories of the past : indicates good relationship
      - Making a kite
        
        "The sheer audacity of it took my breath away. I mean, seriously, what the hell does a black man know about flying a kite?"
        
        institutionalized racism
        
        uneducated
        
        The kite actually flies : Hally finds enjoyment, reminiscing the excitement
        
        Hally ties kite to white only bench - Sam cannot sit
    - - [The telephone rings. Sam answers it.] - abruptness of happiness interrupted
      - Phone call : Hally's parental role on his parents, damaging to child psychology. However, he still cares about his dad "let me know what happens"
      - Hally becomes extremely rude "Tell me something I don't know"
      - Sam has high emotional intelligence, tries to calm Hally down, voice of reason - other perspective (institutionalized racism, normal to accept white orders. )
      - Hally does not want Sam to help with intellectual activity (homework) and go clean windows instead
      - Sam persuading willie to apologise to Hilda
        
        Willie does not agree
        
        Pillow joke -> fight
      - Sam! Willie! [Grabs his ruler and gives Willie a vicious whack on the bum. How the hell am I supposed to concentrate with the two of you behaving like bloody children!
        
        institutionalised racism, no protest
        
        ironic in terms of age
        
        Authoritative, commanding despite young age
        
        disrespects ballroom -> "nonsense"
      - Sam persuades Hally about dancing - defensive - proud of culture
        
        "Simple minded" "mentally retarded"" - no intellectual benefit
        
        Sigh of defeat.] Oh, well, so much for trying to give you a decent education. I've obviously achieved nothing.
        
        Hally interested vs doing homework
        
        Homework to go against racist teacher vs his own interests against racism
      - Ballroom dancing event act out
        
        "There's no collisions out there, Hally. Nobody trips or stumbles or bumps into anybody else. That's what that moment is all about. To be one of those finalists on that dance floor is like . . . like being in a dream about a world in which accidents don't happen."
        
        Real world vs Ball room dance (idealistic, free flowing)
        
        Hally is absorbed, complimentary of dancing "genuinely moved" -> accepts that this activity is valuable
        
        Now Hally actually admires and respects Sam
        
        ballroom dancing -> idealistic world without collisions/conflict
        
        gives hope, starts the dream
        
        people who are changing the world
        
        Now hally respects the pope and General Schmutz
    - - Changes from little hope to no hope/pessimistic
        
        So much for a bloody world without collision.
        
        Smashes bottle of alcohol
        
        Criticizing dad for being crippled
        
        No control over his emotions
        
        Saying the dream is useless, where the world is full of collisions
        
        Hally says nobody understands him and takes this anger out on Sam
        
        Racism disrespect
        
        All that concerns you here, Sam, is to try and do what you get paid for - keep the place clean and serve the customers. In plain words, just get on with your job
        
        He's a white man and that's good enough for you.
        
        After Sam argues his mom, not his dad, is his boss
        
        To begin with, why don't you start calling me Master Harold, like Willie.
        
        threatening friendship
        
        "It's not fair, is it, Hally?" Then I have to ask; "What, chum?" And then he says: "A nigger's arse"
        
        explains the joke - uneducation of black people
        
        Sam spits in his face
        
        Sam calls him Master Harold.
        
        the face you should be spitting in is your father's . . . but you used mine, because you think you're safe inside your fair skin . . . and this time I don't mean just or decent.
        
        Willie tells Sam not to hit Hally
        
        White only bench on kite
        
        Hally was dissapointed due to racism : racism was teh reason why his memory was tainted
        
        Sam apologizes
        
        It's still raining, Sam. You can't fly kites on rainy days, remember.
        
        Hally regrets his actions
        
        Hally hasnt learnt anything/the most important lessson at the end of the day : not to be racist
        
        Hally can choose not to be racist
        
        Wijllie chooses to apologize to Hilda
        
        Ends on ballroom dancing : hopeful
- - - - linking to how Sam is teaching Willie how to treat a women right