Compare how Thami felt about the classroom in junior school to the the way he feels now.

In Act I, Scene VI, Thami returns again to the story of how much he loved school as a child. His teachers praised him and he was always eager to get into the gates in the morning. When he was in Standard Two, his teacher liked an essay he wrote so much that she asked him to read it about an assembly; the essay was about how he wanted to be a doctor when he grew up, describing how he would treat white people for pay and black people for free.

Thami says that he has to update his essay now that he is older. He doesn't want to be a doctor anymore; he wants people to be cured through freedom. However, he doesn't know what exactly to dream of anymore because the possibilities of "bright young blacks" (p.53) like himself are so limited under apartheid. He says that he can't sit in class making his teachers happy and proud anymore.