In at least 150 words, explain how Fugard uses Sam's character to convey the central idea of "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys. Be sure to include transitional words in your response. Use details from the play to support your response.
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1. What is the central idea of âThe Final Assaultâ? What details introduce and develop the central idea? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least one complete paragraph
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Just as the family is poised to begin playing a board game before retiring to bed, they hear six gunshots that will change Anton’s life forever. Fake Ploeg, a Nazi Inspector, has been assassinated on their street. This is “the assault” from which the novel takes its name. Ploeg has fallen, dead, in front of their neighbor’s home. These neighbors are named the Kortewegs. As the hot-headed teenaged Peter watches in horror, the Kortewegs emerge from their home and drag Ploeg’s body so that it lies on the Steenwijks’ doorstep.
Against the objections of his mother, Peter runs out into the street in order to either move Ploeg’s body back or put the body in front of the house belonging to another neighbor, an elderly couple whose last name is Beumer. However, Peter only succeeds in taking Ploeg’s gun before backup Nazi forces arrive. Peter runs behind the Korteweg home and is never seen again. Anton later learns that Peter is executed inside of the Korteweg home by Nazi forces.
A brutal and cruel man in civilian clothes who bears a scar on his cheek then bursts into Anton’s home and questions his parents. He deposits Anton into the backseat of a military vehicle while Anton’s parents are taken away. The Nazis then set Anton’s home ablaze with a flamethrower. Unbeknownst to Anton, his parents are executed, along with a group of twenty-nine hostages. Anton likely would have been killed that night as well if he weren’t essentially forgotten in the backseat of the vehicle.
Upon his re-discovery by Nazi forces, Anton is incarcerated beneath a police station with a wounded woman whom, in the dark, he cannot see. She refuses to tell him her name or to hear his, in order to protect both herself and him. She is an Underground Resistance fighter whom Anton will later learn is named Truus Coster. She was also responsible for the murder of Fake Ploeg, along with another Resistance fighter named Cor Takes. Anton, however, will not learn this information until decades later. Coster offers soothing and motherly comfort and compassion to Anton in addition to bits of information about herself. Most importantly, she counsels Anton by telling him that he must always remember how, on this night, it was ultimately the Nazis who were responsible for the carnage, and no one else. She also tells him that in the fight against Fascism, those in the Resistance must take pains to never abandon their own humanity; otherwise, the Fascists will have ultimately won.
Anton is forced to recount his story to the Nazi Ortskommandantur before being released into the custody of his uncle. The rest of the novel follows Anton from adolescence to adulthood as he sharply suppresses and represses the great trauma and violence that he endured on that January 1945 night. Retreating into an orderly, apolitical, and wholly unobtrusive persona, Anton internalizes, in order to survive and carry on from the violence of the assault and its aftermath. Through both fate and his own subconscious search for the truth of why his family was murdered, he eventually pieces together a complete image of that fateful night.
A decade later, Anton encounters the son of Fake Ploeg, also named Fake. The younger Fake cannot bring himself to admit any wrongdoing on the part of his father and lays the blame for the murder of Anton’s family upon the Resistance fighters who assassinated his father, as they knew that reprisals would follow their act.
At the age of approximately thirty-three, Anton also meets Cor Takes, the Resistance fighter who, along with Truus Coster, assassinated Fake Ploeg. Takes’s brutal ruthlessness appears to demonstrate the opposite of Coster’s philosophy, as Takes openly admits to being willing to execute the children of Nazis in service to the Resistance.
Eventually, Anton becomes an anesthesiologist and marries twice. His first wife, Saskia, bears him a daughter named Sandra, while his second wife, Liesbeth, bears him a son named Peter. At the end of the novel, in 1982, Anton is forced by his dentist to join a demonstration against nuclear arms. There, he encounters Karin Korteweg, one of the people who dragged Ploeg’s body to his doorstep.