By deciding not to kill Morris, Tsotsi once again breaks with his old habits and stereotyped “gangster” identity. In so doing, he recognizes his own capacity for choice. After this decision, he tells Morris he plans to find out his own age—which shows how, in rejecting his stereotyped identity, he is becoming more interested in his true, individual identity. When Morris looks at Tsotsi and sees “the shape of a man,” it recalls the earlier scene where Tsotsi looked at his own reflection in a window and could see only a generic human shape—suggesting that Tsotsi, in sparing Morris’s life, is embracing the group identity of “human”—or, in other words, recovering his humanity. The strange exchange between Tsotsi and Morris about mothers, in which Tsotsi denies that mothers love their children, may foreshadow some later revelation about Tsotsi’s own mother, whom he cannot remember.