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Ha'penny by Alan Paton
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Symbolism
" Ha'penny "
- Symbolises himself as 'half a penny'
- Something of negligible value
Tones
HA'PENNY
Characters
Persuasive
" ...the sickness would have come."
Guilt
" when you put up the cross,put he was my son."
Disgust
"...she knew him only as a derelict of the streets..."
Sad
" i wished i had done something sooner, or more wise..."
Mrs Betty Maarman
- Archetype
- A decent women
- Loving
- Compassionate
- Pious
- A coloured woman
The Narrator
- Responsible
- Thoughtful
Characters
Ha'penny
- Dynamic character
- 12 years old
- From Bloemfontien
- A waif without any relatives
- A Mosuto
- Naughty and uncontrollable
- Clever boy
- Has strong desire to have a family
- Suffer from tuberculosis
Point of view
First person point of view
- The narrator is one of the characters
- ' I ', 'me', and ' we ' are used
- Readers only know what the narrator knows and observes
Examples :
" We buried Him on reformatory farm..."
" I began to feel a great duty towards him."
Setting
Time
- Sunday afternoon
Place
- Reformatory school
- Bloemfontien
- Reformatory farm
Plot
Social
- Discriminated society
BY ALAN PATON
Falling action
- Mrs maarman adopted Ha'penny
- Ha'penny died and buried at the reformatory farm
Resolution
- Mrs Maarman left for Bloemfortein
- The narrator continue his life and job
Plot
Climax
- The lies that Ha'penny made discovered by the Narrator
- Ha'penny fell sick and was suffering tuberculosis
- The narrator wrote a letter to Mrs Maarman telling her about Ha'penny
Plot
Rising Action
- Ha'penny wrote letter regularly to Mrs Maarman
- The narrator found out that Mrs Maarman really exists
- The narrator asked Ha'penny about his family again
Plot
EXPOSITION
- The narrator worked at a reformatory school
- He met Ha'penny, a boy who caught shoplifting
- Ha'penny told him about his family
- He has a mother, two brothers ( Richard & Dickie) and two sisters (Anna & Mina)
Themes
- Loneliness that surrounds the waif / orphan
- The need of having a fine family institution
- The discrimination according to the colour of skin
- The responsibility of being an adult
Alan Paton's writings
- Cry The Beloved One (1948, San Francisco)
- The most famous novel written by him (15 million copies sold)
- Spurred 2 films & a musical entitled Lost In The Stars
- Stimulate awareness of apartheid abroad
- Too Late The Phalarope (1953)
- Wrote when he worked in tuberculosis settlement
Author's biography
- Alan Stewart Paton
- born on 11/1/1903 at Pietermaritzburg, Natal
- died on 12/4/1988 at Durban,Natal
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