1. Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane

2. 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.

3. 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

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

5. 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