Ha Penny
Ha’penny (I wrote it on my own…copy at ua own risk)
Alan Paton South African author and anti apartheid activist.ha penny is taken from his short story collection tales from trouble land
Alan Paton, the author works in a reformatory. Reformatory is an institution for reforming young offenders especially minors. There were 600 boys at reformatory; about 100 were from 10-14 yrs of age. The department expressed the intension of establishing a special institution more like an industrial institution. There, the small boys turn instinctively towards affection and some of them control them naturally and easily. The secret relation with them were a source of continuous relation with them were source of continues pleasure to author. The boys after 14 yrs of age were allowed for outing. So the would take some boys who are under 14 for a ride in his car to Potchefstroom road and talk to them about their families, their parents their brothers and sisters. Among those boys one of them was Ha’penny.he was about 12 yrs old and came from Bloemfontein and was biggest talker of them all. He said his mother worked in a white person’s house and has two brothers and 2 sisters. (Richard and Dickie, Anna and Mina) when they returned to reformatory, Author sent for Ha’pennys papers. There it was written plainly that he was waif with no relatives at all. He was naughty & uncontrollable and eventually had taken to pilfering at the market. then author sent for letter book and found that he wrote regularly or rather that others wrote for him till he could write himself, to Mrs. Betty Maarman,of 48 Vlak street,Bloemfontein but she had never once replied to him. So seeing this, the author wrote a letter to society welfare office in Bloemfontein asking him to investigate. The next time author took Ha’penny out in the car and again questioned him about his family. Here he came to know that his deception has been revealed. the other day the letter came from social
Alan Paton South African author and anti apartheid activist.ha penny is taken from his short story collection tales from trouble land
Alan Paton, the author works in a reformatory. Reformatory is an institution for reforming young offenders especially minors. There were 600 boys at reformatory; about 100 were from 10-14 yrs of age. The department expressed the intension of establishing a special institution more like an industrial institution. There, the small boys turn instinctively towards affection and some of them control them naturally and easily. The secret relation with them were a source of continuous relation with them were source of continues pleasure to author. The boys after 14 yrs of age were allowed for outing. So the would take some boys who are under 14 for a ride in his car to Potchefstroom road and talk to them about their families, their parents their brothers and sisters. Among those boys one of them was Ha’penny.he was about 12 yrs old and came from Bloemfontein and was biggest talker of them all. He said his mother worked in a white person’s house and has two brothers and 2 sisters. (Richard and Dickie, Anna and Mina) when they returned to reformatory, Author sent for Ha’pennys papers. There it was written plainly that he was waif with no relatives at all. He was naughty & uncontrollable and eventually had taken to pilfering at the market. then author sent for letter book and found that he wrote regularly or rather that others wrote for him till he could write himself, to Mrs. Betty Maarman,of 48 Vlak street,Bloemfontein but she had never once replied to him. So seeing this, the author wrote a letter to society welfare office in Bloemfontein asking him to investigate. The next time author took Ha’penny out in the car and again questioned him about his family. Here he came to know that his deception has been revealed. the other day the letter came from social