Chapter log 18-29

Chapter 18

Characters – James Jarvis, Thomas, Police captain, Binnendyk,

Exchange, James’ wife

Summary – A police captain informed James Jarvis that his son was
shot and killed in Johannesburg by a native.

Vocab – veld |velt| (also veldt)

noun
open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa. It is
conventionally classified by altitude into highveld, middleveld, and
lowveld.

Chapter 19

Characters – John Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, a
young woman

Summary – John picked up Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis from the airplane that
transported them to the Harrison’s house.

Vocab - ineluctable |ˌiniˈləktəbəl|

adjective
unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable : the ineluctable facts of
history.

Chapter 20

Characters – James Jarvis, Policeman

Summary – James reads a letter that was for his son.

Vocab - permissible |pərˈmisəbəl|

adjective
permitted; allowed : it is permissible to edit and rephrase the
statement.

Chapter 21

Characters – James Jarvis, Mr. Harris, John Harrison

Summary – James attended his son’s funeral. The coffin was burned to
ashes when the service was finished.
Vocab - bereft |biˈreft|
archaic past participle of bereave .
adjective
deprived of or lacking something, esp. a nonmaterial asset : her room
was stark and bereft of color.
• (of a person) lonely and abandoned, esp. through someone's death
or departure : his death in 1990 left her bereft.

Chapter 22

Characters – Absalom, James Jarvis, Matthew

Summary – Absalom went to trial and was proven not guilty.

Chapter 23

Characters – Sir Ernest Oppenheimer

Summary – A new Johannesburg is being built.

Chapter 24

Characters – James Jarvis

Summary – Jarvis reads something called “private essay on the

Evolution of a South African.” He is shocked and hurt then stops
reading it.

Chapter 25

Characters – Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis, Barbara Smith, Kumalo

Summary – The Jarvis’ go to see their niece Barbara.

Chapter 26

Characters – John Kumalo, Dubula, Tomlinson

Summary – John gives a speech to a crowd and tells them that the
miners should have higher wages. The crowd doesn’t like it. The police
say that John is dangerous.

Chapter 27

Characters – Mrs. Lithebe, Gertrude

Summary – Gertrude says that Johannesburg has caused her to be
corrupted.

Chapter 28

Characters – Johannes, Absalom

Summary – Absalom is sentenced to a hanging

Chapter 29

Characters – Kumalo, Father Vincent, Msimangu, Gertrude, Absalom’s

Girlfriend

Summary – Everybody goes to the prison where Absalom is so that he

and his girlfriend can marry.