Master Harold And The Boys Hally

Two conflicting societies

Athol Fugard is Hally in the book Master Harold and the Boys, he goes through the rites of passage as he finds the way of being a man. Maturity is defined as having the knowledge or the capacity to know what is right and what is wrong between a situation. Hally wants to prove to his dad that he was becoming a man so he could fit into the apartheid society of south africa but he didn't fit into society. In the book hally is portrayed as an immature young kid going on to be seventeen years old which was the age of becoming a man in that culture. He's immature because he plays with willie like a child would, playing shoot ‘em up games. Running around the parlor with each other like children. His father and the role he

The two conflicting sides in Hally’s life are his father’s view on how other people should treat the “less superior race” the black south africans and how sam knows how everyone regardless of color should treat others. “Men of Magnitude” were the people that changed the idea of society or how others viewed an issue in society. The man of magnitude for Sam was Jesus because he believed he changed the way people looked at the jews in the roman empire. Napoleon as well was a good example of a man of magnitude in Sam’s book. Abraham Lincoln was a man of magnitude because he freed the slaves in America and sam saw that as the most influential person.Sam tries to influence Hally to be the social reformer that changes the apartheid in the south african social system instead of conforming to the society he lives amongst. Hally does see Sam as a man yet so he cant teach him how to be a man if he's not a man yet. His father is the one that can teach him to be a man, Sam isn't equivalent to being a man in that society, so how can he teach Hally how to be one? Sam teaches Hally what is right and how you should treat other people as you would treat yourself. Hally knows that he shouldn't treat Willie the way he does and later on the book willie learns a lesson that Hally doesn't which was not hitting Hilda every time she messed up on

Complains about how he has being the one teaching Sam and Willie all the time but in the end Sam was the one teaching him and he is the only one not understanding the situation like a self-centered immature child, not a man. The ballroom dancing is significant in the nature of the flow of the movement in the partners and the way they treated each other on the floor. The ballroom dancing portrayed the imaginary society Hally thought it should be. No one conflicting with each other on the floor “no