Giel Piet

Throughout the movie, PK shows his ability to create new relationships with different people. Some of these include the nanny, Doc, Giel Piet, Dabua Manzi (the medicine man), Maria and Gideon Duma are the people that PK made a close relationship towards. At the end of the film PK becomes a young independent man who shows courage, love, hope and a belief in justice. The relationships with the close friends he made and the experiences that he had been through have helped his life and future to become that young man.

PK’s mother had died from an illness when PK had left to go to the boarding school that were full of Afrikaners as it was an Afrikaner boarding school. When she died, PK’s nanny told him that he had to listen to the wind and if he did do that, he would be able to hear the voices of his life. These voices of his life were the close relationships that he had made within his lifetime of growing up. His nanny had meant that even though he had lost the people he loved and cared for, they were still there and were still apart of his life.

Doc teaches PK how to find the answer in nature, to understand other people, music and the importance of education that he states ‘the classroom isn’t the only place that you can learn in’. He also raises some other issues; these include ideas about justice, racism and prejudice. With all of the experiences that PK shares with Doc, have taught him how to take care of himself, being independent and dealing with the terms of his attitudes and behaviour. PK learns a lot of stuff while with Doc and the lessons Doc teaches PK become more important later on in his life. This was because of him not being racist to any other person that is not English, how to be independent, when he makes a special concert for the native South African prisoners, also when he tries to teach some of the Africans how to write, read even tho he is not allowed to do so. This shows that he does not care what any one else thinks as long as everyone is happy and equal.

Giel Piet was another person that had a close relationship with PK. He is a strong man that was a prisoner. He teaches PK how to be tough, the sport of boxing and creates the myth of the Rainmaker. The myth of the rainmaker means that someone will unite the tribes in Africa. Giel Piet thinks that PK could be this someone that can unite the African tribes in the jail. The myth of the rainmaker is considered as an icon of hope for the blacks. This rainmaker myth was so important towards Giel Piet because he wants to change the future, by getting everyone to work together as one and stop people from fighting and being racist. The development of the rainmaker myth later on in the film is important because for once the Africans were one; this was shown throughout the concert in the jail, that PK held and also when Pk was involved in the boxing match. The prisoners had hope with them and that they were all singing for a good cause as they were mocking the prison guards, paying them back in some way. The Africans had hope that they were going to get out of prison, as they had done nothing wrong, just for being black. All of them were participating as one and there was no fighting or racism used while they all performed songs for the concert.

Dabua Manzi does not have a big part in PK’s life but still helps him to develop PK’s courage and strength. Manzi is the old medicine man that helps PK defeat and over become his fear of the elephant that had