Monday, 4/28: Bittersweet Homecoming

Assignment:

• Review your reading
• Answer the new questions for chapters 29-30 (add to the standard journal responses you already have)

Journal 18, chapter 29 addition (please answer each part of each question in complete sentences):

1. Why do you think Absalom marries? 
2. What sin does Stephen Kumalo commit against his brother, John?  Why does he commit it?  What did he intend to say that he did not, in fact, say to John?
3. On what unexpected note does this chapter end? 

Journal 18, chapter 30 addition (please answer each part of each question in complete sentences):

1. This is the first chapter of the last book (or section) of this novel.  How does it parallel the opening of the previous two books?  How does it differ? 
2. What appears to have happened to Gertude (Stephen Kumalo's sister)?  What evidence can you find (yes, there is a trace of faint evidence...use your detective skills!)? 
3. When Kumalo speaks to his friend, Kumalo tells him how it is he still believes (despite losing so much).  What does Kumalo believe in?  How does he still believe?  What does his friend remind Kumalo about suffering?

* If you finish in class, continue into chapters 31-32 (due Wednesday).

HW: J18, Ch. 29-30 (both standard and added questions completed)

Example: Village in South Africa