The theme of the play is about boy chooses the accepted values of society over a strong friendship. ... He decides to treat his black servants, Sam Semela and Willie Malopo, with disrespect rather than the equality that a normal friendship requires. ... Sam's presence in Hally's life resembles an ideal father figure and role model, which was absent in the young boy's life. ... Sam says, "That's not the way a boy grows up to be a man!... In Athol Fugard's adulthood he supported equality and rights for black people, so there is hope for Hally. ...

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. The same year Rebel without a Cause came out, Rosa Parks was dragged from the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and three black students were let into U...

• Word Count: 1332
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A yellow organdy dress to wear for her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suite that she made from an old suite someone had given her." (2128) She was well educated and knew what life had to offer her so she was determined to get it no matter what she had to do. ... Then she would sit with him at the kitchen table" (66) Jameel (Jimmy), his son, on the other hand was a boy who knew how to watch someone and learn how to do it. ... They are both two independent people, even though Jimmy is a little boy. ... "Some day the boy will own his own business and sell all the f...

• Word Count: 1355
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Maya was an African American girl with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth. ... Momma Henderson was a woman of substance, who was respected for being the only black female entrepreneur in town. ... She questioned herself if she might be a lesbian but decides to prove she is not by having sex with a neighborhood boy. Unfortunately, Maya soon learns that she is pregnant by the neighborhood boy. ... She gave birth to a baby boy which became the love of her life. ...

• Word Count: 1681
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Harold, or Hally, is the true example of a precocious white teenage boy, and "the boys," Sam and Willie, are black men, who work for Hally and his family. ... The status of their relationships can be determined not only because Hally is white and Sam and Willie are black, but also because it is known that the boys play servant roles just from the title of the play. ... Try out a few ideas, but sooner or later I would end up in there with you fellows," shows that Hally established early a defining core relationship to the boys and truly cared for them, despite society's word on forbidden...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find a better life and work there. ... That is an example for racism and colour consciousness within the black community. ... At the age of seven, Bobby got raped several times by a neighborhodd teenage boy who used to babysit him and his younger brothers and sisters. ...

• Word Count: 2335
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

He was found in the bin behind a 17th Street medical clinic, the next day - soft light-brown skin, a shock of unruly black hair, weighing 7 pounds and measuring 21 inches." ... "On the night of her senior prom, Melissa Drexler gave birth to a full-term baby boy in a bathroom stall, placed the infant in a garbage can and returned to her date on the dance floor in a doomed attempt to return to her former life- (Roberts) It's just another tragic story of a teen who hid her pregnancy and disposed of the child, trying not to be found out. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Marjane's mum interrupts the group before they can attack they boy with nails between their knuckles, and gently tells Marjane, "It is not for you and me to do justice. ... In this short series of events, Marjane begins to learn how the complexity of viewing the world in black and white. ...

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In this scene he shows how bad he felt about his son and says, "Homer I've been confuse about you, I've been mad at you, but boy that is the fist time I'm shame of you I in my life." ... This passage is shown when the mother mentions "Some times I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress failing off her in little black papery flakes" This also let Maggie in a state of inner insecurity scene the fire had caused scars physically and mentally as well. ...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

My life was happy and carefree, until the day the planes began dropping bombs from the sky and the men with the shiny black boots came marching into our city. ... Eventually a met a boy named Joshua who was very kind and offered to help me with my work. ...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

She yelled at Wes, until Wes's father reminded her that although "he [needed] to learn what [was] acceptable and what [was] not, that cursing at a young boy wasn't the most effective way of making a point " (6). ...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School