Is there a parallel between Mr. M and his search for change through peaceful and intelligent intervention, and another most important Mr. M (Nelson Mandela)? Discuss, substantiating your answers with proof from the play.
             "... Hope, has broken loose and his looking for food. Don't be fooled by its gentle name. It is as dangerous as Hate and Despair would be if they ever managed to break out. You think I'm exaggerating? Pushing my metaphor a little to far? Then I'd like to put you inside a black skin and ask you to keep Hope alive, find food for it on these streets where our children, our loved and precious children, go hungry and die of malnutrition. No, believe me it is a dangerous animal for a black man to have prowling around in his heart."
             These are the words of Mr. M also known as Anela Myalatya. He is the principal of Zolile High School. He is a very ambitious teacher who wants to change the world.
             The black learners in the apartheid era were suppressed by giving them a lesser education. The low standard of education was called 'Bantu Education'. When Mr. M was a young boy one of his teachers told him about the wonderful world of books, that everything in the world is recorded in books. He then decided that he wanted part of this world of books.
             This pursuit for knowledge led him to a greater cause. To rebel against the government, the people who have been suppressing the black majority for so long. His task was simple, but he did it with utter devotion. Every single day of his live he stood in front of a class of black students and thought them, not Bantu education, but he made them aware, he made them think for themselves.
             His ultimate weapon was words, and he trained an army of literate black youth. His greatest worry was time, he was so afraid that he would not have enough time to complete is mission. Always in a hurry to try and make a difference.
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