By this time, the 'judge' was a powerful man who everyone, bar Peekay, was frightened of. This symbol was a recurring symbol which kept coming back with extra power behind it. Peekay was a important person to the black people in the prison. Everyday, Peekay brought the prisoners some tobacco and anything else they wanted. Because of this, the black people, otherwise referred to as 'the people', dubbed Peekay the 'Tadpole angel'. They called him the 'Tadpole angel' because he was the small musician.
The big musician, Peekay's friend Doc, had the name 'frog', so, naturally, Peekay was called 'Tadpole'. The black people thought that Peekay was the great chief they had been waiting for. Peekay was the symbol of hope among the black people.
He was supposed to break the black people from their oppression. The Black Mamba is one of the most deadly snakes in Africa. Peekay first comes into contact with the Black Mamba, when he asks the 'spirit' of Doc for a sign. The Black Mamba slithers over Peekay, and, subsequently becomes a symbol of danger. Peekay is warned in a dream of the accident he was going to have while working as a grizzly. It also appeared for Peekay when his is about to have his dangerous showdown with his childhood enemy, the Judge.
Geel Piet, Peekay explains, has no inherent morality--he simply plays to win. Peekay does not attempt to magnify Geel Piet's generosity to him into saint-like behavior. He understands that Geel Piet is a criminal and he does not try to sanitize him through his descriptions.
He admits that Geel Piet is "as ruthless as his oppressors. Peekay occasionally has to delve into the first person plural in order to explain his and Doc's difficult position. For example, he explains their approach as follows: "We saw the brutality around us not as a matter of taking an emotional side or of good versus evil, but as the nature of evil itself, where good and bad do not come into play.
Peekay's sense of humor and the fact that he does not always act according to strict morals such as when he knocks Snotnose out with a "Liverpool Kiss" makes us more capable of identifying with him. This is important, since Peekay otherwise outshines everyone-at only nine years of age, he is extremely precocious. Indeed, Doc and Mrs. Boxall and many of the townspeople believe he is a "genius. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
In Chapter Eighteen and Chapter Chapter Twenty-Three, Peekay invokes the symbol of the snake by using the expression of "sloughing" his outer skin to reveal his real self. In such a way, Peekay mentally conquers his early embarrassment over his "hatless snake.
By the end of the novel, the vision of the black mamba snake becomes a symbol of imminent danger-the black mamba snake, a dream sign from Doc, forewarns Peekay of his disastrous accident in the mines, and of his fight with the Judge. As with the symbol of the full moon, Peekay himself analyzes and deconstructs the symbol of the Tadpole Angel. In Chapter Twenty-One he finally comes to terms with the black people's legend about him, and tells Morrie that the Tadpole Angel is "a symbol, a symbol of hope.
Peekay's acceptance of the symbol is an important turning point in the novel- previous to that point, he experienced embarrassment at the idea of being the Tadpole Angel and tried to shun the symbol.
Along with assuming the role of the Tadpole Angel, symbol of hope, Peekay has to confront hope's opposite: after the boxing match with Gideon Mandoma he gains foresight to the atrocities that lie ahead for South Africa. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Symbols Motifs.
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