Connection to In-class Reading
In this cartoon, F.W. de Klerk, the president of South Africa from 1989-1994, is announcing the release of Nelson Mandela from prison on February 11, 1990. The cartoonist must have drawn this cartoon on February 11, 2010 since it is honoring Nelson Mandela’s twenty years of freedom. Nelson Mandela was seventy-one years of age when he got released from imprisonment. In A Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela states “As I finally walked through those gates to enter a car on the other side, I felt even at the age of seventy-one that my life was beginning anew. My ten thousand days of imprisonment were over” (9). Nelson said that right when he was leaving Robben Island.
Relation to Courage
The quote from A Long Walk to Freedom and this cartoon both symbolize courage because Nelson Mandela needed courage in order to mentally and physically live through imprisonment for 27 years before he was released. He had to overcome the thoughts that he would never be able to see his friends and family very much and most of all he needed courage in order to stand up for his own rights. Nelson Mandela said “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Citation
Cartoon Website: "Mandela Cartoons: 20 Years of Freedom." Mandela Cartoons: 20 Years of Freedom. Nelson Mandela Foundation, n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2012. <http://mandela.africartoons.com/>.
A Long Walk to Freedom: Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Print.
Relation to Courage Quote Link: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonmand178789.html#vx6tbbAXk2MFGiwe.99
Relation to Courage Quote Citation: BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2012. <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonmand178789.html>.
A Long Walk to Freedom: Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Print.
Relation to Courage Quote Link: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonmand178789.html#vx6tbbAXk2MFGiwe.99
Relation to Courage Quote Citation: BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2012. <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonmand178789.html>.