Kaffir Boy Allusions & Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Literary and Philosophical References

Matthew 19:14 (30.96)
William Shakespeare (30.110)
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (30.113)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (30.113; 41.41)
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (30.113)
The Hardy Boys series (30.113)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sherlock Holmes series (30.113)
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer (30.113)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (30.113)
Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson (30.113)
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (30.113)
Black Beauty (30.113)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (30.113; 42.48)
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (32.2)
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country (34.7)
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (41.19)
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (41.33; 41.39)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, " In Memoriam " (41.74)

Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) (24.10)
Martin Luther King 's assassination (25.13)
Sharpeville Massacre (25.33-41)
Dr. H.F. Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid (31.3)
The South African War (32.65)
Soweto uprising (42.2)
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and peaceful resistance (42.83)
Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust (44.71)
Steve Biko 's death (48.1)

Arthur Ashe (34.2)
Drum Magazine (37.1)
Dvorak's New World Symphony (41.45)
Earth Wind and Fire (41.56)
Percy Sledge (41.56)
The Beatles (41.56)
Abba (41.56)
The Supremes (41.56)
Boney M (41.56)