Question

7.) Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

HALLY: Of course not! I would have been suicidal if anything had happened to it. Watching you do it made me nervous enough. I was quite happy just to see it up there with its tail fluttering behind it. You left me after that, didn't you? You explained how to get it down, we tied it to the bench so that I could sit and watch it, and you went away. I wanted you to stay, you know. I was a little scared of having to look after it by myself.

SAM: (Quietly.) I had work to do, Hally.

HALLY: It was sort of sad bringing it down, Sam. And it looked sad again when it was lying there on the ground. Like something that had lost its soul. Just tomato-box wood, brown paper and two of my mother's old stockings! But hell, I'll never forget that first moment when I saw it up there. I had a stiff neck the next day from looking up so much.

(Sam laughs. Hally turns to him with a question he never though of asking before.)

Why did you make that kite, Sam?

SAM: (Evenly.) I can't remember.

HALLY: Truly?

SAM: Too long ago, Hally.

HALLY: Ja, I suppose it was. It's time for another one, you know.

Though Sam doesn't say it in this excerpt from "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys, why did Sam make a kite for Hally?

a. to give Hally something to look up at and be proud of
b. to give Hally something to enjoy on a windy afternoon
c. to give Hally a break from spending time with his father
d. to give Hally a sense of what it feels like to live under apartheid

Answer 1

It is to give hally something to look up at and be proud of

Answer 2

The correct answer is A.

Hally is a seventeen-year-old white boy who has a poor relationship with his parents. His father is an alcoholic and his mother is too submissive to stand up to her husband.

Sam is a black man that works as a waiter in the St. George's Park Tea Room. He is compassionate man who really gets Hally's problems with his family and truly cares for him.

Sam's goal in life is to help Hally grow into someone who is proud of himself, and that is why he builds him the kite.