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media type="custom" key="588307" media type="imeem" key="nPvi3RHI7w" width="300" height="290" Chapter 14: On the day they came back from Ezenzeleni, Kumalo received some bad news. All of his fears had been confirmed about his son, and all he could do was nod his head. Chapter 15: Before Kumalo can seek out Father Vincent, the man from the reformatory returns to apologize for his harsh language. He advises Kumalo that he will need a lawyer because John is untrustworthy. Kumalo is so hurt that his son is such a criminal. Father Vincent tried to comfort him as much as he could and told him to pray and rest. Chapter 16: Kumalo, who has begun to find his way around Johannesburg, goes to Pimville on his own to visit Absalom’s girlfriend. She has not heard the news about Absalom, and when Kumalo tells her, she is devastated. Absalom’s girlfriend is so young and she had other husands, the word that does not quite mean husband, and they all have been in some king of trouble and now Absalom is the third. Kumalo promised her a place to stay until an arrangement for her and Absalam to be married. Chapter 17:Mrs. Lithebe does not let her rooms out for anyone even though she has enough for at least three people. Her husband built her a nice big house. She is glad to have a priest in the house for it is good to have prayers in the home. She also let Gertrude and her son stay because they are kin of the priest. Kumalo asked if it was alright for Absalom’s girlfriend to stay as well as and she said yes.

BOOK II

Chapter 18:There is a house in between two hills with flat ploughed fields. It is one of the finest fields in this countryside called High Place. This is the farm and dwelling place of James Jarvis, Esquire, and it is high above Ndotsheni, and the great valley of the Umzimkulu. Chapter 19:Mr. Jarvis and his wife fly to Johannesburg and are greeted by John Harrison, the brother of their son’s wife, Mary. They travel to the house of John and Mary’s parents, where they meet Mary, her mother, and her father, Mr. Harrison. Jarvis, his wife, and Mary get into the car with John to go the mortuary. On the way there, John tells Jarvis that Arthur was an advocate for the rights of the country’s natives, an issue on which Mr. Harrison and Arthur did not see eye-to-eye. Chapter 20: Jarvis sits in his son’s house and looks at all his son’s books and papers. He notices that his son seems to have particularly admired Abraham Lincoln. Jarvis finds a letter addressed to Arthur from a boys’ club in the town of Claremont. He finds part of an article that his son was writing. In this article, Arthur argues that it is unacceptable to keep black South Africans unskilled in order to provide labor for the mines, to break up African family life by housing only black workers but not their families, to deny black Africans educational opportunities, and to break the tribal system without creating a new moral order in its place. Chapter 21:Absalom’s trial begins. Europeans sit on one side of the courtroom and non-Europeans sit on the other. The narrator notes that in South Africa, the judges are treated with great respect by all races, but though they are just, they often enforce unjust laws created by the white people. Absalom’s two accomplices plead not guilty, but Absalom’s lawyer says that Absalom will plead guilty only to “culpable homicide” since Absalom did not intend to kill Arthur Jarvis. The prosecutor denies this petition, however, and Absalom is forced to enter a plea of not guilty. Chapter 22: We are now in a court scene. At the head of the Court is a high seat where the Judge sits(p.190). Even the court is segregated for Europeans on the right and non-Europeans on the left according to custom. Chapter 23: Odendaalsrust is a little place in the province of the Orange Free State. It's like another Johanesburg because the the gold and riches found there, but another Johanesburg is not needed. Chapter 24: James Jarvis thought that he would go to his son's house again. It defenitely caused him more pain to walk through the kitchen, past the stain on the floor, and up the stairs that led to the bedroom.

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