Tsotsi Chapter 12 Book Summary
Tsotsi – Chapter 6 summary and discussion Tsotsi – Chapter 6 summary and discussion von Mr VR vor 9 Monaten 18 Minuten 1.518 Aufrufe An analysis of Chapter 6 of the, novel Tsotsi,. Nelson Mandela Speech That Changed The World Nelson Mandela Speech That Changed The World von TARMAC 2015 vor 5 Jahren 2 Minuten, 45 Sekunden Page 7/13. A South African hoodlum named Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) lives by a code of violence, and he and his gang of thugs prowl the streets of Johannesburg day and night, attacking those who fail to give them what they want. After casually shooting a woman and stealing her car, he discovers her baby in.
- Tsotsi finds a replacement mother in Miriam Ngidi (Chapter 8) 3.b.8. Tsotsi’s childhood (Chapter 9) 3.b.9. Tsotsi’s second encounter with Miriam Ngidi (Chapter 10) 3.b.10. The story of Boston’s life (Chapter 11) 3.b.11. Tsotsi’s death (Chapter 12) 4. Interpretations of the major differences 4.a. The replacement of the apartheid.
- Feb 14, 2011 Tsotsi’s encounter with Morris Tshabalala (Chapters 6 and 7) 9 3.b.7. Tsotsi finds a replacement mother in Miriam Ngidi (Chapter 8) 10 3.b.8. Tsotsi’s childhood (Chapter 9) 11 3.b.9. Tsotsi’s second encounter with Miriam Ngidi (Chapter 10) 12 3.b.10. The story of Boston’s life (Chapter 11) 13 3.b.11. Tsotsi’s death (Chapter 12) 15 4.
Chapter 1
The gang is sitting around a table. Tsotsi is the leader of the group. Boston is telling stories and talking nonstop. Die Aap and Butcher listen to Boston as they drink their beers. Tsotsi folds his hands together and everyone stops what they are doing. Tsotsi tells the gang that they will take one on the train. They walk through the town and are avoided by everyone. The boys victim is Gumboot Dhlamini. He is a hardworking, larger man. Almost a year has passed since Gumboot has left his pregnant wife for work, and he is excited to return home to write her a letter which will inform her that he will be returning home in a week. The man makes three mistakes: he smiles at Tsotsi, he is wearing a bright red tie which makes him easy to follow and he exposes his pay packet to everyone. On the train Die Aap grabs Gumboots arms. Butcher works a bicycle spoke up his heart before he even realizes that he cannot move his arms. Boston grabs Gumboots pay packet and they exit the train before anyone notices what has happened.
Chapter 2
We find the gang drinking, laughing and enjoying themselves at a girl named Soekie’s house. Butcher is drinking at a much faster rate than anyone else. In the corner of the room, a friend of Soekie named Rosie is sitting passed out. Butcher and Die Aap are attracted to her and begin to mess around with her. Tsotsi has no problem with what the other boys are doing, but Boston finds their lack of decency sickening. Boston and Die Aap eventually take Rosie outside and rape her.
Chapter 4
Tsotsi’s first problem is to find milk for the baby. He goes to Cassim’s shop where we learn that Tsotsi can not read, this leads to him being fooled into thinking condensed milk is breast milk for the child. After going back to his room and cleaning and feeding the baby he decides to go hide the child in an abandoned building. That night Tsotsi has a flashback of the “yellow bitch”.
Chapter 5
The novel slows down in chapter five as Gumbot is buried and Tsotsi, Butcher and Die Aap sit around in Tsotsi’s room waiting to see if Boston will show. After coming to the conclusion that Boston is not coming Tsotsi decides they will go to the city.
Chapter 6
As Tsotsi and the gang make it to the city they go out to find their next target. Tsotsi soon loses them in the crowd of people at terminal place, although as he is lost he finds his next target; Morris Tshabalala. Morris continues on with his day but soon notices he is being followed by Tsotsi. The chapter ends with Morris looking back only to see Tsotsi vanish into the shadows.
Chapter 7
Stepping on Morris-the cripples- hand he draws back memories of his childhood. Remembering a yellow bitch, a dog, crawling towards him just as Morris crawls now. The similarities are striking calling back the memory with great pain. This intrigues Tsotsi and he continues to follow the man through the crowded area observing without being observed. Tsotsi follows the cripple out f Terminal Place and into the twilight. He is both frightened and intrigued by what lies before him, wishing to again have his memory jolted but knowing it is against everything he has stood for. As Tsotsi continues to follow the beggar he notice many details: the speed with which the cripple tries to get away, his grunts of effort as he pushes onwards with his arms, even the fear in the way he moves. This all means nothing to the old Tsotsi but something in him has changed. He feels for the man, feels sympathy. He continues to follow Morris as he makes his way from street to street stopping only when tired or briefly to eat at the Bantu Eating House. Finally the two are alone and Tsotsi realizes it is time to do the only thing he knows-kill. He must kill the beggar. He approaches and caught in the light cast from the lamp overhead the beggar faces his follower. Tsotsi talks to the man about his life, how he lost his legs, why he wishes to live and for the first time realizes killing is a choice. This time he chooses to let the beggar live.
Chapter 9
A flashback to his childhood, his mom and grandma chatting, the news his father will finally return home and then the pain he recalls the night his mother was taken from him-the last night before the return of his father. The suddenness with which it happens is the most shocking to David and when his grandmother learns of her disappearance she sets off to find her. Young David is left to fend for himself. His father returns but David cannot bear the burden and hides as to not be seen. The father returns to the empty house and is angry kicking and breaking the dogs back. Now David is truly alone but is picked up by 7 others in a similar situation. Petah is the leader of the gang. They take him in, feed him, and allow him to sleep in the pipes by the river ith them. As he learns to fend for himself he leaves the pain of the past behind even ridding himself of his forer name, deeming himself Tsotsi-gangster. He begins to develop a set of rules that take him down his future path.
Chapter 8
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Church bells toll. Tsotsi returns to the ruins to check on the baby only to see that the condensed milk has attracted ants. He fears for the baby and rids it of the ants, cleaning the baby and realizing condensed milk is no longer an option. He returns to his room with a plan in mind. He shall wait. Just out the window of Tsotsis home lays what is known as Water Works Square. The only area in the area with readily available drinking water. The citizen’s line up for miles waiting to collect their water. He waits until s3eeing a young woman with a baby. She will have milk, although he doesn’t know it her name is Miriam. He waits until she leaves following her home and waiting until she is comfortably inside before knocking and before she can comprehend what is about to happen he has snuck inside. He demands she feed the baby, she begins to unbutton her shirt and the feeding begins…
Chapter 10
The book starts off at Tsotsi’s house when Die Aap comes over. Tsotsi has to hide the baby under his bed. The gang ends and tsotsi explains that to die aap. Then after Miriam comes to tsotsi’s room and helps take care of David, because he needs mother’s milk. After she left, tsotsi took David to the ruins and hid him there.
Tsotsi Chapter 12 Book Summary
Chapter 11
Tsotsi goes back to where he left Boston after he beat him up, and takes him back to his room and takes care of him. Once Boston wakes up he talks to tsotsi then runs away. While they are talking tsotsi explains how the gang is over.
Chapter 12
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Isaiah was planting plants in the church garden, trying to keep the rows straight. Then talked to father ramsy, and he told Isaiah he could ring the church bell tonight 10 mins before seven o’clock. Isaiah the talked to tsotsi and told him about god. Tsotsi then takes David back to Miriam so she can feed him and then brings him back to the ruins. After he leaves
David at the ruins he hears the bulldozers coming and rushes back in attempt to save him. He is not quick enough though and gets crushed, along with David. A wall collapsed on them and when they cleared the rubble he had the biggest smile on his face that anyone has ever seen.
It is from this inhumane being that the novel begins the story of change.
At the start of the novel Tsotsi knows very little about himself and endeavours to keep it that way. It is a rule of his to not think about his past or raise any questions about it. “His second rule which operated then on through every other moment of the day was never to disturb his inward darkness with the light of a thought about himself or the attempt at a memory” (36). This is because he doesn’t know the answers to questions about his past and instinctually fears memories, the reason of which is revealed later. But it is Boston, a member of his gang who is the one to raise questions, which initiates a thought process. He became conscious of the fact that he does not know very much about himself. It is in this mind state that he discovers a catalyst in his life.
By chance Tsotsi is given a baby. The effect that this baby has on him is life changing, because rather than abandoning it he cares for it. This involves him learning to look after it, against everything that he previously knew about himself and at the risk of his reputation. He doesn’t know at first why he cares for it but gradually learns. The baby evokes unknown feelings in Tsotsi, but more importantly it brings forth the memory of a yellow bitch. This memory has a powerful effect on Tsotsi and for once he found that “he was curious” (59) about his