Guide+to+Johannes

Johannesburg is a very well developed city located in the southern part of Africa. It is the wealthiest province in Africa.This city is the home to the South African Constitutional Court, which is one of Africas highest court systems. Since the late 1880's this city has taken on being a big part of the trade of diamonds and gold. This small city is home to more than three million people
 * ABOUT JOHANNESBURG**

cite to Johannesburg: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/johannesburg_77.jpg The city of Johannesburg is no where as beautiful as where the book starts out. The grass is very green and keeps the fire from ruining the soil. The grass in the small places also keep the crops from becoming plentiful and end up making the plants very puny. The majority of the younger people have moved away. For obvious reasons. : In the begining of this books it describes a land of beauty, and purity. The ground there is considered holy for it is said to have come from the creator of all. If this land is destroyed so is man. Last but not least this land holds a secret...on top its nice, rich, beautiful, and well kept. However, the bottom of the lands stands in ruins fired have ravaged it. It no longer cares to tend to the needs of man. Only the hardworking men and women of old age, and children to young to leave stay, for the land cannot keep the young men and women. When the little girl brings the letter from Johannesburg to Kumalo he is very surprised. There are plenty of people that go to Johannesburg and never come back. There have been plenty of people in reverand Kumalo's family that have never come back. His brother, sister and son haveall gone in searchof something and never returned. In thesouthern part of Africa it is a city that everyone goes to and falls in love with. They have everything that is in a greater demand. The city lures people in and does that to Kumalo when he reads the letter and finds out that his sister is sick. In village of Ndotsheni Reverend Kumalo recieves an unexpected letter from an unknown person. Apprehensively, he give his wife the letter to read, when he notices it's from Johannesburgh. The place where is family has ran to and never came back infact anyone that goes there never comes back. He's hoping that its from his son who went to Johannesburgh in search of his aunt Gertrude, who was searching for her husband. Unfortunately, it was from a Theophilus Msimangu who was writing to tell of Kumalo's sister. She's very ill and needs his help As Kumalo sits at the train station in Carisbrooke he thinks aout Johannesburg. He is afraid of what to expect when he arrives at his destination. he has heard that it is a very dangerous place and is very developed. From the way he acts at thetrain station it is apparent that anybody that has been to Johannesburg and back impresses the people around him on the train. Waiting for the train in Carisbrooke Kumalo thinks if the things that he's heard of about Johannesburgh. He's afraid of whats to come. He's afraid to lose his life in a city he knows nothing about, by doing simple things such as crossing the street. Getting on the part of the train reserved for non europeans he saw women im primitive dress adorned with european articles. Men no longer dressed primitive. On the train he was looked upon with great respect. He rolled over hills, to steep valleys, passed brakend and flower. His fear had come back to, he was afraid of the uncertainty of whats to come to his family and his world as he knows upon entering Johannesburgh. As his journey continues, it takes Kumalo through the hills of Lufafa, Eastwoods, and Donnybrook. Traveling past Drakensberg, they ride on to the level plains. The other men on the train explain the mines to Kumalo as he asks twice if the places he passes is Johannesburg. But before he can ask again, he is overwhelmed and cant understand it all. When he is asked where he is going and if the man asking could buy him a ticket for the bus, he is cheated out of a pound. A older man gets Kumalo on the bus to sophiatown where he safely gets to a Mission house. Waiting for the train in Carisbrooke Kumalo thinks if the things that he's heard of about Johannesburgh. He's afraid of whats to come. He's afraid to lose his life in a city he knows nothing about, by doing simple things such as crossing the street. Getting on the part of the train reserved for non europeans he saw women im primitive dress adorned with european articles. Men no longer dressed primitive. On the train he was looked upon with great respect. He rolled over hills, to steep valleys, passed brakend and flower. His fear had come back to, he was afraid of the uncertainty of whats to come to his family and his world as he knows upon entering Johannesburgh. In Sophiatown kumalo is warned about the crime that has happened to both white and black people. He is told that his sisterlives in the worst part of Johannesburg and no longer has one husband but many. She sells alcohol. Her son does live with her but it is no place for any chld to live under any circumstances. When Kumalo asks about his brother he is told that he no longer attends church regularly but he is a very well known politician. Kumalo is starting to realize that he misses his wife that he left behind only two days before. The next day Msimangu takes Kumalo to the part of the city where his sister, Gertrude,lives. It is a small part called Claremont. This part of the city is very dirty and it is filled with rival gangs. It is explained to Kumalo that the children that should be in school are running around the streets because there is no room for them. Kumalo does not agree with the lifestyle that gertrude is leading and tells her the shame that she has brought to their family and informs her that she is going home. When she tells him that she is to ashamed to go home because of what she has done in Johannesburg. He decides at that moment to pray with her. When her son is finally brought home, Kumalo gets her to get their stuff and she stays and she leaves her home. Kumalo is one step closer to getting his family back toghther. When Kumalo is writhing a letterback to his wife and Gertrude and her son are settled in, John is brought to him. At first John doesn't recognize his brother. John speaks of how Ndotsheni is different from Johannesburg. In Ndotsheni he says he’s a nobody and so is Kumalo, and how he finds it rather stupid to bow and salute an ignorant non educated man. In Johannesburg he says he’s a man of great importance of sum influence and boast about his business and the money he makes.John and Kumalo talk and Kumalo learns that Johns wife has left him and he has found a mistress. He speaks of his times in the mines, and how he worked all day for 3 shillings and how the money increased foe the whites but not the blacks. John tells him with discomfort of how his son Michael and Absalom have gone to Alexandra, and the factory they work for. Upon returning to Sophiatown they stopped by Mrs. Ndlela’s she told of a letter from Absalom asking for his belongs. With a return address attached.
 * CHAPTER 1**
 * CHAPTER 2**
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 * CHAPTER 6**
 * CHAPTER 7**

The next morning after they had eaten at the Mission House. Msimangu and Kumalo set off for the great wide road where the buses run. Kumalo had a fear of catching the wrong bus to Johannesburg. Unexpectedly Dubula, one of Johannesburg'sthree most important black leaders comes up to Msimangu and asked are you going to "Alexandra, umfundisi." But they could not go because the police was there to prevent that. But not by force but by persuasion. Dubula said if you ride the bus then you are weakening the black people because the blacks refuse to ride the bus until the fare is brought back to fourpence again. Kumalo and Msimangu went to Alexander to find his son, when they got there they talked to a woman named Mrs. Mkize who looked like she was afraid to talk to them. But she finally did and told Msimangu where he can find this taxi-driver named Hlabeni, who know where Kumalo son was or might be. Because of the bus boycott many people are left walking back and forth to work. Its hard times but they do not care for in the long run it will help they believe. They are shown respect from some white, who risk their lives and freedom trying to help them on their journeys to and from. Someone is looking for a room to let as they say but the house is already packed and they barely have food to eat. They have to pay for a lot of different things and when they finish paying for everything they are lefted with 17 shillings for food and that is still not enough for six people and a two bedroom apartment. whoever these people are staying with dont like the woman because of the way she likes at her husband, the boy because of the way he likes at her daughter, and the she doesn't like the man because of the way he looks at her and her daughter. But she's letting him stay there for another week and then they have to go. In the Shanty Town there are not enough home. Small shacks seem to arrive every nightaround the train track.Dubula and his committe finally get the money for homes to be built but when people start to watch and try to see they are run off. They are forced to go back to where they came from.
 * CHAPTER 8**
 * CHAPTER 9**



Kumalo waits for the time to travel to find his son. While he waits he tells his nephew a little about Natal while his mother talks to her new friend Mrs. Lithebe. Kumalo enjoys being with his nephew, and it is to him the he looks to to make him smile. He didnt have much to talk about with his sister he is tweny years he senior, and she wouldnt want to talk to him about the deep thins in Johannesburg or her occupation. He finally is able to make it back to Shanty Town and tries to find his son. Kumalo is sad with what he see, feels better when he notices a nurse that has been trained and educated by the whites at the European University of the Witwatersrand. The nurse informs him that Absalom stayed with a family called the Hlathwayos. They tell how he was put in a reformatory school. The school says that he was given a job and his currently living with his girlfriend and that Kumalo can visit him. Much to Kumalo’s dismay Absalom has left his pregnant girlfriend who is just a child and will probably never come back. Guide A-4 page 2
 * CHAPTER 10**