Question

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

HALLY: (To the table and his exercise book.) "Write five hundred words describing an annual event of cultural or historical significance." Would I be stretching poetic license a little too far if I called your ballroom championships a cultural event?

SAM: You mean . . .?

HALLY: You think we could get five hundred words out of it, Sam?

SAM: Victor Sylvester has written a whole book on ballroom dancing.

WILLIE: You going to write about it, Master Hally?

HALLY: Yes, gentlemen, that is precisely what I am considering doing. Old Doc Bromely—he's my English teacher—is going to argue with me, of course. He doesn't like natives. But I'll point out to him that in strict anthropological terms the culture of a primitive black society includes its dancing and singing. To put my thesis in a nutshell: The war-dance has been replaced by the waltz. But it still amounts to the same thing: the releases of primitive emotions through movement. Shall we give it a go?

How does this excerpt from Fugard's "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys allude to the period in time the play takes place? Select all that apply.

a.) Willie's use of the term master to address Hally
b.) Hally saying his teacher "doesn't like natives"
c.) Hally needing to write a paper for his English teacher
d.) Sam's mention of a book entirely about ballroom dancing

Answer 1

A,B, D.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Master Harold"... and the boys is a play written by Athol Fugard, the play was first staged in 1982. It is one of Fugard's famous work. The play raised to issues faced by the black during apartheid. Due to its content, the play w

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A,B, D.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Master Harold"... and the boys is a play written by Athol Fugard, the play was first staged in 1982. It is one of Fugard's famous work. The play raised to issues faced by the black during apartheid. Due to its content, the play was banned from staging in South Africa but it was performed outside of the country.

It is consist of autobiographical events from the life of Fugard.

In the play, Harold, who is a seventeen-year-old white boy likes to be called 'master' by his friends and African servants Sam and Willie.

The allusion found in the excerpt to that of apartheid period are

• Willy uses the word 'master'.
• Hally's teacher doesn't like natives.
• Mention of ballroom dancing.