Apartheid Response

The relationships changed throughout the movie like when the Jersey Kid turned down the free jersey they offered him and at the end he wore it. Another relationship that changed was Francois Pinaar when he got invited to the presidents house for tea. The Francois basically made the whole team to pick up their game.  I also think that the team’s mindset was changed when they got to see Mandela’s jail cell. I also think Mandela’s relationship changed when he had convinced the board not to change their jerseys and all that stuff. I also think Mandela’s relationship was changed when Francois gave him a Bokke/springbox hat.

This represented South Africa post-apartheid by having both black and whites untied together on the same team and both cheering for the same team in the crowd.  It represented South Africa by segregating them together. I also thought it represented post-aparthied when they went to that school and whites and black were united together and played rugby together at the school and made all the kids days when they arrived and left, and like before all the spring box games the kids would all chase the bus to were it would park, and when they would run around the neighborhoods and the kids would run with them and encourage them. I also thought it was really cool when Mandela would come out before games and after games and they would all chant NELSON, NELSON, NELSON.

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