Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane

Dialogue Direct Dialogue- the exact words spoken by a person Uses quotation marks and dialogue tags Ex. “This time next fall, you will be in school,” hinted my mother. “Why would I go to school? You’ll never see me wasting my time at school!” I vowed. Indirect Dialogue- paraphrased of what is said by a character or narrator Ex. When my mother began dropping hints that I would soon be going to school, I vowed never to go to school because it was a waste of time.

Mark Mathabane (1960-) Grew up in South Africa Spent childhood in a unheated shack with no electricity or running water Learned to love school and received a scholarship for high school Received a tennis scholarship to a South Carolina college

Kaffir Boy and Apartheid His story about his childhood living under apartheid Apartheid- racial segregation and in South Africa between 1948-1991 Began with The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 Immorality Act of 1950 Population Registry Act of 1950- classified the races- “black” “white” “couloured” “Indian” 1960-1982-3.5 million “nonwhite” residences were forced into segregated neighborhoods

Benzene- element of crude oil Pilchards-small oily fish Vocabulary Benzene- element of crude oil Pilchards-small oily fish Shebeens- illicit “underground” bars Scropbrush- scrub brush Kaffir- insulting term for a black African