Master Harold Symbolism

Question 1

Rain

Answer 1

Represents apartheid

Can’t fly kites on rainy days

Question 2

Rainy days

Answer 2

Represents something not good to come

Question 3

Looking up

Answer 3

Hope and pride

Question 4

Looking down

Answer 4

Ashamed and embarrassed

Question 5

Example of looking up

Answer 5

Sam built hally kite to make him look up; to feel better

Question 6

Kite made of

Answer 6

Trash

Question 7

Because of what the kite was made of…

Answer 7

No one thought it could fly

Question 8

Kite represents

Answer 8

Freedom, miracles, a better tomorrow, democracy, all that is good

Question 9

Why did Sam build the kite

Answer 9

To give hally self confidence

Question 10

Play took place in

Answer 10

1950 South Africa

Question 11

Bench represents

Answer 11

Apartheid, racism, bigotry, hatred

Question 12

What happens when Sam ties it to the bench

Answer 12

It falls and holds back all the good things

Question 13

Ballroom dancing is something

Answer 13

Only rich while people do

Question 14

Ballroom dancing for Sam and willie:

Answer 14

Pride for same and willie

Chance to escape reality; be equal

Question 15

Ballroom dancing represents

Answer 15

Utopia, perfect world without collisions and bumping into each other

Question 16

Displacement

Answer 16

When hally takes out his frustration about his parents on Sam and willie

Question 17

Comic books belong to

Answer 17

Hallys father

Question 18

Comic books show his father is

Answer 18

Ignorant, less educated, childish

Question 19

Hallys father represents

Answer 19

Crippled corrupt South African government

Question 20

When Sam carries hallys father on his back it shows

Answer 20

The government keeping the black man down

Question 21

Joe Louis represents

Answer 21

Hope for black people