Warm Up
What is the difference between intelligence and wisdom? Write a paragraph.
The Power of One – Focus Questions
- What is the main message of the film?
- What is the significance of the blacks and the English turning up to Maria’s wedding?
Themes
Provide a list of moments from the film where the following themes are explored:
- Death (e.g. PK lost his dad when an elephant trampled on him in the bush)
- Racism (e.g. Yappi Botha taking out his anger of PK because PK is English)
- Courage (e.g. PK found the courage to take out Maria)
- Hatred (e.g. The Afrikaners despise the Africans and the English)
- Loneliness (e.g. PK saw imaginary loneliness birds)
- Friendship (e.g. Peet teaching PK to box)
- Victory (e.g. The different tribes of Africans came together in the concert and sang as one)
Character list
- PK
- St John (Headmaster of English Boarding school)
- Geel Piet
- Sgt. Bormann
- Doc
- Jaapie Botha/Sgt. Botha
- Nanny
- Maria
- Gideon Duma