There are a couple different reasons the boy does not want to go to school. His peers influence his ideas and the decision he makes out on the streets. This often gets him in trouble. He is introduced to violence at an early age. (p. 422) Also, he learns how to steal and fight with his friends and people he hangs out with in his gang. “They, like myself, had grown up in an environment where the value of an education was never emphasized; where the first thing a child learned was not how to read and write and spell but how to fight and steal and rebel.” (p.422) Besides peer pressure, he

In Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane, the boy does not want to go to school, the mother wants what’s best for her child and in the end, the two understand one another. The boy feels distracted by his peers and pressure from his mother. The mother wants him to succeed as a person. She also does not want him to be denied the privilege of going to school like other South Africans. When the story ends, they both realize what one another is thinking and feeling inside.

is also feeling pressured by his mother. While she wants him to be educated, he feels he does not want to be bothered by the many pressures that come along with school.

As the story unfolds near the end, the mother and son come to realize what one another are thinking and feeling. The mother understands her son in a couple of ways. She knows that her son is feeling pressure and that he is influenced by his surroundings and the people that he is with on the streets. “It’ll make you soar, like a bird lifting up into the endless blue sky, and leave poverty, hunger, and suffering behind.” (p.429) They liv

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