What had surprised me in the story Kaffir Boy, was when Mark had agreed and understood his mother when he was so young and was heading the rest of his life wholly into the gang he was in. That many young children don’t change their minds that easily when they have chose something they want, even if a thousand words answered their questions of the subject. It was his own choice to either live behind his dad's cowardness into what he thought only white people did, and that it was shameful to learn education. His mother had thought the best for her children, traveling them further than she has gone. I was surprised by Mark’s reaction to his mother’s speech, whilist he chose on her side and not his father’s. The reason why is that he had consequences
