Question

Answer the following question in about 80-100 words.
Why did Nelson Mandela feel that his boyhood freedom was an illusion ?
Or
Horace Danby never expected the unexpected. Clarify this statement keeping in view the lesson.

Answer 1

Mandela felt so because as a student he wanted transitory freedom — freedom to stay out at night, to read books of his choice. As a young man, he yearned for basic honourable freedom of achieving, of marrying and having family. He first wanted freedom for himself. Later he realized that real freedom was to live honourably and lawfully.

                                                   Or

 Horace Danby never expected that he could be befooled by a woman thief and that's what happened. She very cunningly made him believe that she was the owner of the house and had forgotten the numbers to open the safe. She bade Horace to open it otherwise she would get him arrested. Horace broke open the safe and gave her all the jewels who later got caught for the robbery.

Answer 2

1.Mandela realized that his boyhood freedom was an illusion because when he was a child it  was limited only till running  near the fields,  roam around mother's hut, freedom to swim in fresh and clear streams of water in village, roast mealies ( a south African maize plant) under the stars and to ride the broad backs of slow moving bull.

2.when turned into a youth he discovered that his freedom had already been taken away from him

3.as a student he wanted some transitory freedom for himself such as staying out  at night read whatever he pleased and go where he chose.

4.he then talks about certain "basic honorable freedoms " such as achieving his potential of earning,his living and marrying and having a family.

5.he builds a contrast between the two freedoms by stating that the transitory freedom he wanted was limited to him whereas honorable freedoms had to do more with the country.

6.this portrays that Mandela had strength of spirit ,integrity, honor and leadership qualities in him