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Moses is an elderly blind man who socializes with Willie and his friends in Willie’s backyard. In conversation with Guy, Willie implies that Moses moved to Johannesburg a long time ago seeking work but was never able to find a job. At the play’s end, when Willie is waiting for local racketeer Shark to come and kill him, Moses keeps Willie company, pointing out that Shark won’t mind Moses’s presence because Moses, as a blind man, can’t serve as an eyewitness.
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Moses Character Timeline in No-Good Friday
The timeline below shows where the character Moses appears in No-Good Friday. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Scene 2
...two men, Pinkie and Peter, in the backyard while Tobias observes. An elderly blind man, Moses, sits nearby. Pinkie talks about his job: a White employee named van Rensburg cursed at...
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...can keep you content, but if you ever “forget you were black,” you’d be punished. Moses agrees. When Guy says Moses probably can’t remember anything, Moses contradicts him, saying he remembers...
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...can—and, hopefully, to visit home in a year. Willie asks Guy whether Tobias knows that Moses has been writing comparable letters home for 50 years and advises Guy to keep Tobias...
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Scene 5
...Guy and Pinkie follow him. Shark, Harry, and the third man stand there while Watson, Moses, and others wait anxiously. When Willie asks what Shark wants, Shark says he wants to...
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...tells him to go play his show and, later, to comfort Rebecca. After Guy leaves, Moses comes back and tells Willie that he’ll wait with him—Shark won’t mind because Moses is...
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