Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane Dialogue Direct Dialogue the

Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane

Dialogue • Direct Dialogue- the exact words spoken by a person • Uses quotation marks and dialogue tags • Indirect Dialogue- paraphrased of what is said by a character or narrator 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. 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 • Born Johannes Thanyani, but changed name Mark Mathaban to hide from the white South African government • 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

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