Geel Piet: Analysis Of The Frog
Quote:
“It is like this, small baas. The professor is known as ‘Amasele’ (‘The Frog’), because he plays his peeano at night when the prison is quiet. To the Zulus the frog makes always the loudest music at night, much louder than the cricket or the owl. So it is simple, you see. You are the small boy of the frog, which makes you a tadpole” (230).
Quote Analysis: This quotation said by Geel Piet, talks about how the prisoners think of Peekay as a tadpole. He is the tadpole and Doc is known as the frog. Geel Piet is foreshadowing that Peekay will one day be a successor of Doc. When it says “the frog makes always the loudest music at night, much louder than the cricket or the owl.” it tells us, literally, out of all the people in the prison,
“It is like this, small baas. The professor is known as ‘Amasele’ (‘The Frog’), because he plays his peeano at night when the prison is quiet. To the Zulus the frog makes always the loudest music at night, much louder than the cricket or the owl. So it is simple, you see. You are the small boy of the frog, which makes you a tadpole” (230).
Quote Analysis: This quotation said by Geel Piet, talks about how the prisoners think of Peekay as a tadpole. He is the tadpole and Doc is known as the frog. Geel Piet is foreshadowing that Peekay will one day be a successor of Doc. When it says “the frog makes always the loudest music at night, much louder than the cricket or the owl.” it tells us, literally, out of all the people in the prison,