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toc plot summaryA1Page2 =**Chapter 25 **=

Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis visit their favorite niece, Barbara Smith, on a day in which Court was not holding the case. Jarvis thought i would be good for his grieved wife. While they talked of things, Jarvis walked in the garden; and when they said they were going into town and if he would like to come with them, he said he would stay home and read the paper. The paper had much news of the new gold mine and some crime of assaults on natives by Europeans. While reading, there was a knock at the door and there at his door step shaking with fear was umfundisi. ...I'm going to let someone else finish this interesting confrontation... ~Corinna

The Jarvis' went to one of their niece house, and while they were there a man came and knocked on the door. He just sat on the steps and Jarvis asked him if he was ill, and if he wanted food or anything else, but the man just said no. He came to talk about the daughter who worked for a white man in Ixopo. -Sara

=**Chapter 26 **=

John Kumalo is speaking powerfully to a crowd of people about getting better wages for mining jobs. The police men watch carefully for any sign of uprising and talk about him being dangerous. The umfundisi and Kumalo are also there listening and remark at the way he works the crowd. Mr. Jarvis and John Harrison are also listening. Jarvis says he does not care to hear it and John thinks that he is too old to face it. There was a strike in the mines. There were few deaths, but the police report that all is quiet now. ~Corinna

The crowd stirs as John Kumalo speaks to the people. He speaks indiscriminate words. The police are alert in case of any disorder so that they can put him in the van and take him somewhere else. The people applaud him once he is done. They went on a strike, but it came and went, because the police were called to drive the black people back into the mines.-Sara

=**Chapter 27 **=

Mrs. Lithebe talks to Gertrude about talking carelessly to men who laugh and talk carelessly. Mrs.Lithebe says this would be best so as not to make the umfundisi suffer more than he has already. Gertrude says that she shall be glad when she leaves Johannesburg to get away from the life she has led. Then in the middle of their talk a woman comes in with a newspaper with the headline "Another Murder Tragedy In City. European Householder Shot Dead By Native Housebreaker". Then the umfundisi comes in with the girl supporting him because he is weak and takes him to his room. Mismangu comes in next and asks Lithebe to fed Kumalo there so that he will not see the paper elsewhere. Later Gertrude tells Lithebe she wishes to become a nun. Mrs. Lithebe tells her they will pray awhile on it and keep it between themselves. ~Corinna

Mrs. Libethe and Gertrude are talking. And Mrs. Libethe talks about how much Kumalo has already suffered, and how she should not make him suffer anymore.Gertrude says that she will be glad to leave Joahnessburg, because it has not been good for her.There was also another murder, and he was shot by a native housebreaker. They were shocked, especially that it should happen at such a time that it did. -Sara

=**Chapter 28 **=

The Judge goes through a long speech about how he came to his conclusion. He decides that Matthew Kumalo and Johannes Pafuri are not guilty and are discharged and that Absalom Kumalo is guilty of murdering Arthur Jarvis and is sentanced to be hanged to death. When the Judge rises the Absalom falls to the floor in tears and a woman wails and the old man cries "Tixo, Tixo". Then while the whites and blacks file out through their separate doors, the young white man goes and helps the umfundisi, breaking the custom. ~Corinna

They are in the court once again. The judge explains that after long thought and consideration they have come to the conclusion that Absalom is guilty for the murder. The other 2 boys are discharged. He is to be returned to custody and hung by the neck. He falls to the floor crying and sobbing. The custom is that black people are on one side, and whites on the other, but a young white man breaks the custom and goes towards Msimangu.-Sara =**Chapter 29 **=

Father Vincent marries Absalom and the girl. It is a difficult thing...for many are still saddened. After the marriage is complete Absalom tells his father to get money from the Post Office Box and then breaks down because he is afraid to die. Kumalo goes to say his goodbyes to his brother but ends up making him angry by saying that his son was not a friend and telling him that people are watching him carefully for his politics. John Harrison drives Jarvis to the train station. Jarvis gives him an envelope that he is not to open until he is gone. In the envelope is a check for one thousand pounds to go to the Boys Club that John Harrison and Arthur Jarvis had started. There is a feast before Kumalo and the rest are to leave for home. Mismangu tells them that he will retire into a community and forswear the world and his possessions and gives Kumalo a Post Office Book and asks Kumalo to pray for him. The next morning the umfundisi wakes early and prays for Mismangu and then wakes the girl, but when he goes to wake Gertrude she is gone, leaving the red dress and white turban and her boy. ~Corinna

=**Chapter 30 **=

Steven Kumalo and the boy and the girl travel by train back home. When they arrive he is greeted tremendously by all. They pray for people and that there will be rain. Kumalo tells his friend what he has found of Sibeko's daughter. Then he goes inside and sends the girl to bed. Kumalo then shows his wife the money that Mismangu has given him and they talk of buying new clothes and a new stove. Then he begins telling her of all that happened on his journey. ~Corinna

=**Chapter 31 **=

Kumalo goes to the chief to ask him to have classes on tending the land to keep the people in the valley and taking care of it. He looks perplexed and frowns and says he will see the magistrate about it. Then the umfundisi went and prayed for the chief and for the restoration of Ndotshendisi. Next he went to headmaster and asked him the same thing, but the headmaster simply said that schools have no power over the children, most of which are dying themselves. Saddened by all this he goes back home and starts doing his church accounts until he hears the sound of a horse. He sees a small white boy on a red horse, who Kumalo greets and invites inside. He gives him water, for it is all he has and tells him of things while the boy speaks Zulu for him. The boy says he will return. That night, his friend stops by to tell Kumalo that he has cans of milk for the children that are dying and that he will continue to give them until the grass is green and the cows give milk again. ~Corinna

=**Chapter 32 **=

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 9, 93)">A child brings Kumalo four letters (two from Absalom for Kumalo and one for the girl, one was from Mismangu and the last was from the lawyer, Mr. Carmichael). He opens the last one fearfully to find out there was no mercy and his son is to be hanged in 15 days. He reads Absalom's letter and then Mismangu's. Then he is sent out to thank the boy and to tell the white man at the store to hold the letters from the prison until they come to get them. When he goes out he looks at the sky that tells of coming rain. The magistrate, the chief and Jarvis do something with sticks. When it starts to rain heavily Kumalo lets Jarvis stay in the church though the roof leaks. Kumalo tells Jarvis the fate of his son and Jarvis says he will remember on that day. ~Corinna

=**<span style="color: rgb(73, 140, 223)">Chapter 33 **=

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 9, 93)"> The boy comes back on his horse and learns more Zulu. Then his grandfather comes home with a demonstrator to help the people heal the land. He is being paid by Jarvis to do so. Then the boy comes back and says he will leave but will return for the holidays. ~Corinna

=**<span style="color: rgb(73, 140, 223)">Chapter 34 **=

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 9, 93)">The church is preparing for confirmation and during the ceremony prep they get word of Mrs. Jarvis's death. Kumalo writes a sympathy letter. During the ceremony it pours and comes down through the roof. Afterwards the Bishop tells him he should leave and go to another place where there will be less stress and problems. Then he gets a return letter from Jarvis saying what he wants to continue to do for the church and that his wife was ill before Johannesburg. They make a wreath for Jarvis from the church. ~Corinna

=**<span style="color: rgb(73, 140, 223)">Chapter 35 **=

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 9, 93)">The people are working hard and with passion to recreate the land. The chief is getting restless but Kumalo insists it takes time and that it is getting better. The demonstrator says to the umfundisi that when there is many people in the land again they will still move away, but also that he works not for a person but for Africa. ~Corinna

=**<span style="color: rgb(73, 140, 223)">Chapter 36 **=

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 9, 93)">It was the fourteenth day. Kumalo said he wanted to go up into the mountain so she gave him tea and cakes and he started up. It was almost dark when he saw Jarvis. Jarvis said that he was going to leave Ndotsheni but still provide help for the church and the people and thanked the church for the wreath. Kumalo thank him for all that he had done. As Jarvis went off on his horse he cried and called "Go well, go well". When the umfundisi reached the top he sat thinking about all the things that he had done that he was not proud of, all the things bad that had happened on his journey and all the treasures he found. He woke just before dawn thinking about his son's execution and what would go on. Then he calmed himself looking to the coming light and eating the cakes and tea. And the sun came as it always has and will and light Africa and free the people from bondage and fear, "why, that is a secret." (pg.312) ~Corinna