Chapter+7

John tries to explain why he stopped #|writing #|home and then asks Kumalo if he may speak in #|english. In a strange voice, he relates that he has been seized by "an experience" in Johnannesburg that has made him see things differently. In the villaga, john says, he was a nobody and had to obay the chief, whom he calls ignorant and a tool of white man. In johnnesburg, he say, he is free from the chief, although he adds that the church serves a similar functions in keeping black south Africans down. Things are changing in Johannesburg, john proclaims, and his voice deepens with emotion as he decries the wealth and power of the mine's owners and the poverty of the miners. Although the bishop condemns this economic discrepancy, he lives in a fancy house, which embitters John toward the church. SCOTT CASON