Master Harold And The Boys Essay

In Master Harold ...and the boys, Sam invites hally and willie to imagine lives transformed by courageously hopeful vision, but while willie eventually embraces that vision, the play ends sadly when hally condemns himself to hopeless cynicism when he repeatedly rejects this invitation and uses his imagination to defend himself against hope and to bruise others with his cynical pictures of a broken world. In "Master Harold"...and the boys we see Sam’s imagination and his strive to spread his dreams with Willie and Hally to change their mindsets towards one of imaginations and dreams. As we start reading the book we see that Sam is a very wise man with a very gregarious attitude with his friends. Sam has a very detailed imagination that throughout …show more content…
When Hally, Willie, and Sam were in the middle of their dream of this perfect world Hally gets distracted by a phone call from his mother in which his father talks to him and Hally puts on his mask of love for his father on. Then a nuke goes off when Sam asks Hally about his father, and Hally flips on him telling him it is none of his business. Hally gives up on his dream and his writing of the dream and turns ugly towards Willie and Sam. When Hally says, “Do you want to know what is really wrong with your lovely little dream, Sam/ It's not just that we are all bad dancers. That does happen to be perfectly true, but there's more to it than just that. You left out the cripples.” Hally not only turns on the boys but also takes out his anger on his father behind his back on something that he can't even help. Sam tries to warn Hally that this is his father that he is talking about and that he is on treacherous ground. Hally doesn't care he is already to far gone and he is determined to keep being ugly towards the boys and his father. Hally then procedes to tell a joke about the unfairness of Sam’s arse. After he told