The Power Of One :: film essay

The movie was about a son that wanted every one to come together to rede each other better and for them to have equal declines. P.K was a boy that was approximation about many things on the people he was thought process by his mother about England and by nanny about the Zulu. When P.K. was a sm every(prenominal) boy he went to a boarding school for the Afrikaans. He was treated bad he even almost got killed by Jaapie Botha. When he got out of the school he went to live with Doc a adorer of his grandfather. Doc goes to jail because he failed to register when he entered the country since he was coming form Germany P.K. went with him too, to jail. Their he learned to recession he was thought by Geel piet a black prisoner that new how to box, as P.K he became more of a boxer. When he got out of jail he went to box at a gym. He went to school. One day in a boxing match P.K fell in love with a daughter called Maria Marias. Maria was Afrikaner and wasnt aloud to date a British boy. They started to go out then decided to get married besides that never happened because Maria got killed. P.K. and his friend were teaching the black how to reed and right and that was illegal Maria was teaching too. The Afrikaner army came in and interdict the school and that started a fight. Maria was running towards P.K. when one of the troops unshakable a chair into Marias face and she died. P.K then left because he was searched by the Afrikaners that wanted him. So he left towards Alexandria. The troops were looking for P.K. and could not find him. The troops killed any black person they could see. Jaapie Botha found P.K and he was going to kill P.K but one of P.K.s friends killed Jaapie Botha. They both escaped from the Afrikaners. in that respect is a lot of south African history in this delineation because it shows what happen to black people and the British and how they were treated un equal to the Afrikaners. They were all different but that did not mean they had to be t reated this way. They were punish by the police real hard for any little insignificant thing. It also shows how they believed that separation was the right thing when it rely wasnt.