Book Club #9: C, TBC

Passages From The Text	Pg #	Comments & Questions
·         “They are silent in the Court. And the judge too is silent. There is no sound there No one coughs or moves or sighs. The Judge speaks: ·           ·         This Court finds you guilty Absolom Kumalo of the murder of Arthur Trevelyan Jarvis at his residence in Parkwold on the afternoon of the eighth day of October 194. And this Court finds you Matthew Kumalo and Johannes Pafuri not guilty and you are accordingly discharged. ·         So these two go down the stairs into the place that is under the ground and leave the other alone. He looks at them going perhaps he is thinking, now it is I alone.”	235-36	·         (R)  I know that I am supposed to read at least 20 pages between each blog entry, Ms. English Teacher, but I really wanted to write about this part! I’m surprised that Absolom was found guilty; I thought this book would be like a comic-the “good” guys win and the bad guys lose. Except Absolom is a bad guy- I think he deserves to be punished. I do think that hanging him is a bit much though. Anyway, the author seems to try hard to portray Abolom as some wayward youth who is actually a great boy inside. He’s just made some bad decisions! Nonetheless, the author sent him off to be hanged and let his “friends” go off free. But due to the evidence that was given, that was exactly what should have happened. I felt that the reasoning behind the ruling was very sound. I feel very bad for Kumalo though. He left his life in the village, his wife also,  and used up a bunch of his resources to find out that his son is a thief and now, a killer. I wonder, does he sometimes think that he should have stayed in Ndotenshi?