Why doesn't Mr. M also rebel against the government? Why does he turn in the names to the government? Why did Mr. M want to become a teacher?
This is only a short-answer space. Informally known as Mr. M, he is a highly-respected and beloved teacher at Zolile High School in Camdeboo during Apartheid-era South Africa. Mr. M is Thami’s favorite teacher (and the latter is his favorite student) and he desperately wants Thami to succeed, but fears that his involvement with a bad crowd will bring him down. As a result, he tries to get Isabel to work with Thami in an interschool literary competition in the hope of landing a scholarship for his favorite student.Mr. M wants to make a difference for his students in South Africa.
