Many of the things in this world occur mainly due to the agency of man. Apartheid, for instance, was set up by the white people of South Africa to keep the black people under their control. They had made the choice to create strict laws and it is by their hand in which the blacks of South Africa have suffered so. Mathabane lived a life subject to white men. He could not control the things they did and force them to see life as he did. He eventually was able to see that his only way to gain oppurtunity was to keep himself pushing and deal with life as it was instead of calling on his oppressors to stop their persecutions. Every person has their agency. With that they can decide whether to be happy or to be sad, to keep fighting or to give up. If a man has the oppurtunity to, he may be able to choose to enslave another man under his will. The world is made up of all the actions and choices that people make. One man may change the way he sees life, but he cannot make the billions of others out there change their views. That is only up to them. However, that does not mean we cannot influence one another. That is what can bring change to the world, thus it first takes someone to change to be an example to others.