Question

Key ideas and details: what details from mathabane's life explain why he is so determined not to go to school? 3. craft and structure: mathabane chooses to use mostly indirect dialogue in the beginning of the story and mostly direct dialogue at the end. what effect do his choices have on the pacing of the story? why do you think he makes these choices? 4. craft and structure: describe how the author uses active verbs to develop his characters in the part of the scene after the narrator is told he will be going to school. 5. craft and structure: the word protestations on page 125 means nearly the same as the simpler word protests. why might the author have chosen to use a more formal and elaborate version of the word in this scene?

Answer 1

He hated school because Mark's experiences in school weren't so good. Whippings are a daily experience, and Mark is frequently punished because he talks too much or his nails aren't clean or his school fees aren't paid on time. And he hates homework.

3.This has a clarifying effect in depicting the terrible situation in the apartheid in South Africa. Because he wants to portray the horrible and unfair that life can be just for the fact that the color of your skin is different.

4.-Mark isn't impressed when Mama tells him he'll be going to school. He believed school was a waste of time, a lesson he learned from the gang of boys who lived in a junkyard and spent their days searching for food and stealing things for money. Where the boys were growing up, education wasn't valued, but figuring out how to fight and steal was.  He uses active  verbs like believe, learned, lived to depict what he thought about school.

5.-Since he wanted to make something more formal in his protest and it would imply more people involved and more time, too.