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Monday, May 24, 2010

Chapter 5 questions

  1. What does Hoppie mean by "the head rules the heart" p75?
  2. Try to explain the phrase "the salt of the Earth"p 78
  3. How were you feeling about the character of Hoppie before he took Peekay to the Patel's store to change his 'tackies'? After the exchange in the shop between Hoppie and the Patel's, did your attitude change towards Hoppie? If so why?
  4. When Hoppie is explaining to Peekay about the American boxer Joe Louis being negro (African American), and that they were black like the Africans, but not "stupid and dirty and ignorant" (pg 88), what does that suggest about the mentality of white South Africans at the time?
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  1. RyanMay 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM

    Hoppie means the heart acts, but the head sends the command, so the head rules.

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  2. RyanMay 27, 2010 at 9:20 AM

    3: yes, my view of him changed because he was racist and that is kind of sad because people can't control their race

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  3. duncan mMay 27, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    1. Hoppie means you must think with your head before you follow your feelings.
    2.the salt of the earth means one of the best of their kind.
    3.I was feeling that hoppie was a nice kind of man. My feelings didnt change towards hoppie because you know he isint to friendly to their type.
    4.It suggests that the mentality of white south Africans was that they thought the africans were bad and unless they did some thing famouus.

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  4. KarlieMay 27, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    1- First with the head then with the heart means that you've got to think carefully about things and then when you make a decision you have to go for it with all your heart.

    2- I think it means that they are determined to do what they want to do whether other people like it or not.

    3- I think he seems dodgy because when they were in the shop he was a bit uptight like he shouldn’t be doing what he was doing.

    4- The white South Africans though the African Americans were stupid, dirty and ignorant. This suggests that they judge people by what they look like and the colour of their skin.

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  5. ashleyMay 27, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    1.Hoppie means that if your mind can conseve it and your mind can see it then your heart knows that you can achive it.


    3.Before Hoppie took Peekay to partels i thoght that he was someone who treated people with respect and that he didn't care what colour the people were.But when hoppie exchanged the tackies i the way i though about him changed when he was stubin and rude to the people who owned the shop.

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  6. jadeJune 1, 2010 at 1:45 PM

    1.Hoppie means that you go with your head first and then the heart.

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  7. JadeJune 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM

    3.My attitude towards Hoppie is that he is a nice guy especially when he bought Peekay some new tackies.

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  8. paigeJune 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM

    1. Hoppie means that the heart decides but the head makes the moves.
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    3. I actually liked Hoppie he sounded nice and helped Peekay. My view of Hoppie changed because of at the Patel’s store he acted like he was the boss and they had to do what he said.
    4. That they didn’t care about them and that just because they were African American they could treat them like rubbish.

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  9. kerriJune 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM

    1. I think when Hoppie said your head rules the heart he means that you should first make you dreams come true in your head and then follow them with your heart

    2. When Hoppie uses the phase “salt of the earth” I think he
    Means that the men that support him are the best that he has met

    When Hoppie first got introduced to the story he seemed like a friendly nice guy who didn't judge people by heir covers but when he went into the shop to exchange his tackies he changed and started to become less considerate to the different races.

    4. I think that the white South Africans think a lot about themselves and that they judge others by the colour of their skin and not by their characteristics.

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  10. samJune 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM

    1.I think that the head rules the heart means that you can sometimes just jump into things without thinking. (Your heart) but when you think you can get things right.

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  11. samJune 1, 2010 at 2:10 PM

    4.I think that it means that they were in charge of the black South Africans, and they liked to boss them around a lot.

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  12. NikiianJune 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM

    1. Hoppie means that you've got to think twice in boxing because sometimes the first thing that comes to mind could be the answer.
    3.Before Hoppie took Peekay to the shop I thought that he was a bit dodgy because of some of the things that he had taught Peekay to do like teaching him to hold onto the rails and leaning off the train which can be dangerous. Peekay also felt worried because on his first night of the train, Hoppie had tucked Peekay in and taken off his pants and Peekay was shocked when he had seen that Hoppie had taken his pants off.
    4. The white Africans thought that the Africans were stupid and dirty and ignorant. If not it would of been Hoppie assuming that that's what the white Africans had thought about the African Americans because the whites were a high class.

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  13. samJune 3, 2010 at 9:36 AM

    I liked Hoppie before he went into the shop, because he was laid back and everything but as soon as he stepped foot into the shop he was an arrogant person just because the people who owned the shop had a different skin colour than him.

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