Tsotsi’s Knife
In Tsotsi, the protagonist Tsotsi’s knife symbolizes his false, stereotyped identity as a tsotsi—that is, a “thug” or gang member. Near the novel’s beginning, the reader learns that Tsotsi carries the knife…
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Yellow Dog
In Tsotsi, the yellow dog represents Black families’ destruction by South African apartheid. The novel’s protagonist Tsotsi, a gang member who remembers nothing about his past, has his first flashback to the…
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