Which of these examples shows contradictions in the character of hally in "master harold". . and the boys? hally is mean to his mother but then speaks kindly of her to sam and willie. hally is ignorant of world events but then discusses politics with willie and sam. hally is friendly with willie and sam but then demands they call him master harold. hally is harsh with sam and willie but then gives them extra money to them pay their bills.

The correct answer should be “Hally is friendly with Willie and Sam but then demands they call him Master Harold”. 

Let’s keep in mind that the play is set in a racist, post-WWII South Africa, in which ruled the ‘white-only’ policy. Harold “Hally” is a 17-year-old teenage boy who lives with a drunken father, who is a veteran, and a mother who does not have the strength to stand up to her husband. Both his parents are racist, and so he’s been taught. But Hally builds a sort of friendship with the two black servants, Willie and Sam, although this friendship id hidden by the distance that had to be kept between master and servant.

Hally is friendly with Willie and Sam but then demands they call him Master Harold.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

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credit to mohana ram murugiah.

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teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

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