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Comparing Text and Film
overt: open, not secret
my Notes
5 Mandela never made his purpose overt in that first meeting with Pienaar, but he did edge closer to the main theme when he switched the conversation to his memories of the Barcelona Olympic Games, which he had attended in 1992 and recalled with great enthusiasm. “He talked about the power that sport had to move people and how he had seen this not long after his release in the Barcelona Olympics, which he especially remembered for one particular moment when he said he stood up and he felt the whole stadium reverberating,” said Pienaar, in whose mind Mandela was seeking to plant the first seeds of a political idea.
6 “Francois Pienaar was the captain of rugby and if I wanted to use rugby,
I had to work with him,” Mandela said. “I concentrated in our meeting on complimenting him for the role which he was playing and which he could play. And I briefed him on what I was doing about sports and why I was doing so. And I found him a highly intelligent person.” The time had come, as Mandela explained to his guest, to abandon the old perception of the Springbok rugby team as “enemies” and see them as compatriots and friends. His message was, “Let us use sport for the purpose of nation-building and promoting all the ideas which we think will lead to peace and stability in our country.”
Second read
• Reread the nonfiction text to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
5. Key Ideas and Details: Choose a quote from paragraph 1 that indicates Pienaar’s attitude toward his meeting with Mandela.
6. Key Ideas and Details: What is Mandela’s purpose in meeting with Pienaar, the captain of the rugby team? Choose a quote that answers the question and explain.
7. Key Ideas and Details: What inference can you make about Nelson Mandela’s ability to understand and work with other people? Support your answer with details from paragraph 6.
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