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**__Literary Elements 3

Chapter 11 __**

__ **Brian Graves** __ - "for who is not silent when someone is dead, who was a small bright boy ?" - Kumalo displays how he new Authur Jarvis when he was a young boy and deeply saddened that nobody is stepping forward to point out the people that did this horrific thing.
 * __Carrie Seymour__**- "...Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end..."

A strong and true statement which indicates that integration will not be an option while there is still so much hate and discrimination amongst the blacks and whites. -No doubt, no doubt. Anything but what I most desire."
 * __Carrie Seymour__**- "-The day after tomorrow we go to Ezenzeleni. Perhaps you will find something there.

It is quite clear that the only thing on Stephen Kumalo's mind is to find his son. __ **Chapter 12** __ __ **Brian Graves** __ - "Cry,the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear ." - This is the sentence that is the most important in the whole book to me. It shows how everyone is afraid, and no one can enjoy their lives or country. People offer different solutions for the problems but, the majority of white people do not want to give up their power, or be intermixed with the black people and the black people are starting to hate the white people because of it. The only people who will truly suffer from all of this is the children and the next generations of Africa. __**Carrie Seymour**__- "There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cried something that is neither this nor that." To me, this is saying that there are so many problems that there are too many to assist. Instead of working together and being heard as one voice, there are thousands of soloists that can not be helped nor heard. It is difficult to choose which voice is loud enough to be heard from a crowd of screaming shrills. Who should be helped, and who can wait? That happens to be the conflict - indecision. For some reason, this sentence angers me. Is it really worth it to live in fear just to say you're superior?! If that's living, then I'd rather die. I would give up superiority to live at ease and carefree any day. Why would one feel inferior if there was no fear of inferiority? Living in fear takes away the chance to live. Fear engulfs everything that allows it to trail behind. It is the barricader of the journey any human being should be priveleged with. Once it surrounds you and closes you in, it's over. No oxygen - no life. 
 * __Carrie Seymour__**- "...And our lives will shrink, but they shall be the lives of superior beings; and we shall live with fear, but at least it will not be a fear of the unknown."


 * __Ra Shauna Johnson__** <span style="COLOR: #e1aa41; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #225831">"We shall forego the coming home drunken through the midnight streets, and the evening walk over the start-lit veld.We shall be careful, and knock this off our lives, and knock that off our lives, and hedge ourselves about with safety and percaution."

--<span style="COLOR: #805252; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #1d09ae">I think that this is saying that they shall put everything aside and start thinking about the native children of the community so they can get crime out of their community.


 * __CHAPTER 13__

__RA SHAUNA JOHNSON-__**<span style="COLOR: #f47666; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #987816"> __"for here the blind, that dragged out their days in a world they could not see, here they had eyes given to them"__

<span style="COLOR: #8d6120; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #0d2eba">--- to me, this is saying that Ezenzeleni was so nice that even the blind could see how beautiful it was
 * __Carrie Seymour__**- <span style="COLOR: #ec83e0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #350808">"...There was nothing that he could remember, nothing, nothing at all, that could make it probable."

<span style="COLOR: #b9b30e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #1d5834">Stephen Kumalo is trying to figure out where he could have gone wrong in raising his child, and he can not see where he may have faltered.


 * __Carrie Seymour__**- "<span style="COLOR: #8615ac; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #120d0d">What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"

I think that is the question of a lifetime. I wish I had the answer to it. However, I do not. I just thought that question was very intriguing.


 * __Carrie Seymour__**- "Yes- it was true, then. He had admitted it to himself. The tribe was broken, and would be mended no more ."

<span style="COLOR: #c6cd70; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #140651">This shows Stephen's resignation to the idea of change being beat. He now realized that he must accept what is.


 * __CHAPTER 14__**


 * __RA SHAUNA JOHNSON__<span style="COLOR: #cc6d19; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6d0f8a">-"...the hot tear fell fast upon them. The boy stands unhappy, there is no gladness in his eyes ."**

<span style="COLOR: #d1ca8f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cd0e4f">**---this, in my opinion, is saying that Absolom was crying so much that he really coulnt say anything when is dad was talking to him.**

<span style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">**__Carrie Seymour__**- <span style="COLOR: #4710da; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #61d1e0"> "...The boy stands unhappy, there is no gladness in his eyes. He twists his head from side to side, as though the loose clothing is too tight for him ." <span style="COLOR: #e675e1; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000">This is a great simile to show Absalom Kumalo's uncomfortable position in the presence of his father.

H<span style="COLOR: #cb2d20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #251d1d">e says it with meaning, with cruel and pitiless meaning ..."
 * __Carrie Seymour__** - <span style="COLOR: #34d53b; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #201d20">"Yes, yes, John Kumalo interrupts him, and smiles at him. Who will believe your son? he asks.

<span style="COLOR: #b97bef; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #181616">To me, that is the end of brotherhood. To turn against your own blood, and to call your own nephew a liar? There's more than one wrong here. John Kumalo should be dead to Stephen Kumalo in his eyes.
 * __Chapter 15__**


 * __Carrie Seymour__**- <span style="COLOR: #f042c1; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #98cc2e">"...Why, sometimes, for a moment or two, I can even believe that it has not happened, that I shall wake and find it has not happened. But it is only for a moment or two."

<span style="COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #19be7d">I can relate to these thoughts. I fell asleep holding John's hand in the hospital, and woke up wondering where I was because I thought it was all a nightmare. Unfortunately, it was not. Reality is harsh sometimes.


 * __<span style="COLOR: #ec327f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #131010">RA SHAUNA JOHNSON- __** <span style="COLOR: #9132f1; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #afef25">"About this lawyer, he said. Ithink you must have a lawer. Not because the truth must not be told, but because i do not trust your brother. You can see what is in his mind. His plan is to deny that his son and the third man were with your son."

__ ---In this paragraph, i feel that Kumalo's brother is sneaky and would try to get his son out of trouble and not help his oun brother. __ Literary Elements 5