Master Harold and the Boys Study Questions Revised.

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Master Harold and the Boy Study Question
Q1
Sam defines romance for Willie as a happy ending.
Q2
Simply because something important took place in the past does not signify that it was something good. While discussing social reformers, (Jesus, Lincoln, Abraham, Marx, Churchill) Hally informs Sam that, “Some were significant for the world, some thought were not great men.”
Q3
Hally name Charles Darwin as his man of magnitude. He implies, “Some who defeated mankind” (Lawson 97).
Q4
Hally name Leo Tolstoy as his second man of magnitude.
Q5
Hally clashes between the manner in which his teachers, parents and some whites around him are teaching him on the way things like race relation and segregation should be handled. For instance, with whom and how to interact with those people that are not of white nature. He treats hired workers who are of middle age as children and want them to be submissive to him (Lawson 45). However, he discovers that they detect and understand a lot of what is taking place in his own life and that of their family.
Q6
Hally’s relationship with his father is a negative one. Hally’s father is an amputee, and he depends on Hally to care for him. Hally speaks to his mother on the phone saying, “I’m not disrespectful, but I’m sick and tired of emptying stinking chamber pot full of phlegm and (urine)” (Lawson 49). Hally’s father is a heavy burden to him since he is alcoholic and steals Hally’s money to spend on liquor.

Q7
Willie’and Hilda Samuel’s dance partnership is suffering due to the absence of Hilda for several days in the practice. Sam ask Willie to admit that he has beaten Hilda and that is the reason she failed to attend the practice, then Willie admits that. Willie blamed Sam for having set him up. Hilda and Willie get a child together
Q8
In connection with this incident, it is the bumping or collision of people per day throughout the day and making efforts not to create harm.
Q9
Hally decides to write on the annual ballroom dancing competition.
Q10
At the start he questioned about the relevance, however later he became offended and frustrated just after discovering that the father has moved from the hospital to their home. He becomes confused, mean and angry (Lawson 128). He discovers that he has crossed the limit and that he is mistaken.
Q11
Hally has a feeling that he is aware of what is certainly happening yet he does not know so much. He is just a shallow young boy who targets on his grief about his fault of his father
Q12
Education does not equal to wisdom (Hally to Sam)
Hally’s love to his father in spite of their problem
Acknowledging racial superiority
Q13Willie.
A man who is middle-aged, he is a father yet single, he does the job while paid for it, he is lightly invested in the family.
Q14 Sam
Works many years as a savant in the same family, and is being paid for the work he is doing. He realizes that Hally needs a father’s guidance and help and he steps in.
Q15.-Hally
He is a boy that is still young; he needs to find out what is happening around him. He is supposed to stop aiming at what is wrong according to his view, and need to change to be a right and good person.
This is a play that speaks about problems caused by racism. A white boy represents a master while the black is given the character of a boy. The white boy is privileged and superior while the black boys’ character like Willie and Sam are underprivileged and subordinate.
Work Cited
Lawson, John, and Harold Silver. A social history of education in England. Routledge, 2013: 1-672