Source: "Tsotsi: Can a baby redeem a hardened thug?" - Mile Klindo and Helen Haylard Tsotsi is based on a novel written in 1960 by Athol Fugard, who wrote plays and novels with a focus on the destructive impact of apartheid segregation on human relations. He was an opponent to the apartheid rule, and his work provides an insight into the consequences of segregation. Gavin Hood, director of the film, Tsotsi, does not meet the same social and political critique according to writers Mile Klindo and
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impact because even the children had their own gangs and so did the adults. Gavin Hood’s film Tsotsi shows the poverty and violence that black people lived in due to apartheid and how someone who is violent because of the environment feeds off of violence, but manages to enter a state of metamorphosis to do good to the society. Rodwell Makombe in, “Gang Violence and Postcolonial Survival in Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi” argues that, “the emergence of gangs in apartheid South Africa is an attempt by the marginalized
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Jaevian James Dr. Thaddeus Babiiha English 1020- 02 30 January 2015 The Real David: Hoodlum with a Heart of Gold In the motion picture, Tsotsi directed by Gavin Hood, Tsosti is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. Tsosti was not a criminal just because he encountered a hard lifestyle from young causing him interact in violent crimes for survival. After a series of violent crimes, he hijacks a car while driving and finds that there is a baby on the back seat. He brings the
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setting someone free from oppression, and redemption is the act of saving someone or being saved from something immoral or awful. The following examples are of redemption and liberation are shown through the novel Tsotsi by the change demonstrated through the once thug, and protagonist, Tsotsi. It is also shown through historical events in South Africa such as, the Scramble for Africa, apartheid, and the actions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, formed in South Africa after apartheid. The novel
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in surrounds. It is something that has to rattle them to their core and allows them to challenge former beliefs. Both Tsotsi and Tears of the Sun are examples of how an interaction with a baby to just extracting a doctor from a war torn area can over haul belief structures. Tsotsi shows just one aspect of how simple a chance encounter can deeply affect some one’s life. Had Tsotsi not been confronted at the bar he would never had run off and consequently stolen the car and taken the baby. Through
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describing the poor physical environment at fist could convey that the physical environment is extremely important and that it personifies people living in Sophiatown, This could also show that Tsotsi was born into a similar environment which could have mentally scared his mind and in relation to the meaning of Tsotsi ‘ thug’ could represent the lives of young people in the township, the fact that they were born into poverty could alter their mind and make them do immoral actions. In relation to poverty
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