Waiting_For_The_Rain

Waiting For The Rain What is the point of apartheid' Truthfully there is no point at all to apartheid. It is just a set of racially motivated laws that limit the Black South Africans from having equal rights to the White South Africans. Apartheid is ridiculous and extremely wrong. A discussion of apartheid according to the novel Waiting for the Rain will show the reader to understand exactly how wrong apartheid really is. In the novel the two main characters are best friends, one of them is white and the other is black. Frikkie is a white kid who gets to go to school for free and is best friends with Tengo who is a black kid and is not allowed a free education. Tengo cannot understand why the black kids aren’t allowed to receive a free education just like the white kids. Throughout the novel all Tengo wants is an free education and he finally finds out from his cousin Joseph that the whole reason that he cannot receive an education for free is because he is black and is not allowed the same rights as the whites. After Tengo speaks with Joseph he soon begins tengo, white, black, apartheid, train, education, because, novel, free, people, girl, allowed, wrong, very, south, party, just, ezekiel, way, understand, two, tengo’s, sit, same, rights, red, receive, point, kids, kid, joseph, having, go, frikkie, friends