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Life lessons 3 Chapter 7 Robynne: Kumalo got his money stolen but still found pleasure in the small boy. Everyone should do this. People need to be more optistic.
 * //Kathryn: U saying that people should get robed to learn Bad things can happened if they going to trust each and every person? Put urn self in his or anybody that has been rabed before. And u will realized that u can not do anything when u in new state and u don’t know anybody and then u have no money to get urn self food or room.//**

Dani:Kumalo finds out that johns wife left him and found a new mistress then kumalo says that he has had an experience in Johannesburg that made him see things differently also he says something about being free from the chief and how that compares to how the churches keep black south Africans down.

Chapter 8: Robert: In the beginning of this chapter Kumalo has a fear of getting on the wrong bus and Msimangu told him not to worry. So... basiclly she was stating saying don't fear the evil stand strong and fight it don't let your fears control you.

Robynne:Kumalo went to the bus staion and someone tells Msimangu and Kumalo that they were boycotting. This means someone is standing up for whats right in that country. Everyone shou;d stand up for whats right and not let fears be in control.

Kathryn: Well Kumalo knew that in some of the busses may be dangerous because they where black ad he did not know what to expect. Even thow they whent in the first bus he stil had fear to go to the diferent busses.

Dani- Msimangu and Kumalo take a bus to Alexandra but a man stops them on the way. He tells them that they should take a different bus beacuse there is a boycott because of the price of the bus fare. Then msimangu starts telling a story about a white woman being raped. Then msimangu and Kumalo see a white man get pulled over by a cop because he had black passengers.The man threatens the cop to take him to court.I guess the life lesson in this chapter is to not be afraid of your beliefs and morals. Stand up for what you believe in.

Chapter 9 Dani- johannesburg is the place for people to escape no matter their race, search for a job or hide a pregnancy. Something about housing being hard to find and they are sick children in shanty town and dubula has to arrange for doctors. Aslo when white people come to take photos of the town but when black people come to the town the police drive them away.

Robynne: This chapter said to me that you should work hard for everything. Nothing is worth beging for. Things will come yto you when god is ready for them to. Chapter 10: Robynne: Find your place of peace and know where it is. Kumalu got lonely in Johannesburg so he started thinking of the places that he enjoyed and it made him peaceful.
 * Dani- What happens in this chapter is that msimangu takes kumalo to shanty town and he discovers that his son Absalom was sent to an reformatory. They visit the reformatory and a man tells him that they had released Absalom a month ago on good behavior and also due to the fact that he has gotten a girl pregnant. **

Chapter 11: Robynne: When one hears bad things that happen to others, people become sad. Kumalo and his company at the time when he heard about what happened to Mr. Jarvis started to feel this way. It is a normal thing to care about what happens to others.
 * Dani – Msimangu tells kumalo that the man they met at the reformatory will do a better search for kumalo’s son, Absalom. At dinner at the mission house there is news of another murder. The victims name was Arthur Jarvis who was the president of the African boys club. **

Chapter 12: Robynne: There are many voices that are crying. The same thing is happening in this country. Many people have different needs but where does the government start to help? They can't help everyone and thats why they have to help themsleves.
 * Dani- This chapter was mostly about a conference where mr. mclaren states that “we shall always have native crime to fear until native people of this country have worthy purposes to inspire them and worthy goals to work for”. I believe that the life lesson on this chapter is once we will all be great in the world. **

__Chapter 13 __  Dani – Kumalo and msimangu make a trip to Ezenzeleni. Kumalo realizes that msimangu was right that there was no need to fear the one thing in a great city where there were thousands upon thousands of people. Also in this chapter Absalom might have killed a white man and Kumalo wonders how he failed his son. Robynne: Kumalo was talking about where he went wrong in his own child. This made me think about the child that I will one day have to rasie. How will he/she turn out? What kind of things shape a child.? I have a hard time coming to terms with how Absaolm turned out, becuase Kumalo his father is a prist and one would think the son of a prist would be florlished with morals.Kumalo is also figuring out that many things can be worst and infact there is always something worst, just like there is always something better. Most times one needs to experiance what is worst or the worst the have a greater apprecation for what one has.
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Dani – John and Stephen suspect that their sons are suspects in the murder of Arthur Jarvis. At the prison, Stephen asks Absalom why he carried a revolver if he wasn’t going to use it and Absalom replies that he never knew when he was going to be attacked and that he was afraid. Robynne: Absalom killed the white man without thinking first. We should think before we act because our actions effect others. Dani – In this chapter the white man from the reformatory comes to speak to kumalo about a lawyer. He says that Absalom must have a lawyer because he does not trust john. He also tells him that no matter what happens Absalom will be punished very badly. Robynne: Kumalo talks about the man that is napping in the grass. He explains that a really bad storm is coming and everyone is tring to hurry home as fast as they can. But no one stops to wake the old man up. This is true in socity, people are more wraped up in what they are doing to care about others. You should help someone every chance you get because what comes around goes around.
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