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"For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret." -Stephen Kumalo
Stephen Kumalo is a priest from the town Ndotsheni in South Africa. He travels to Johannesburg to find his sister. Once he finds his sister he travels all over the country to find his son. He is worried his son is in trouble, when he finds him he is in prison for murdering a white man. Kumalo experiences a whole new life in Johannesburg he experiences new ways of living and new places. When he returns home he wants to help change his community. He wants to educate the people so that they can learn to keep their lands. So that they will learn to provide for themselves so that one day they will be educated and free from bondage.
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"For he had given little time in his life to the savoring and judging of words... For he had given little time to the studies of these particular matters." -James Jarvis
James Jarvis is a rich white man who lives on top on Ndotsheni. He has a big insight in the real world that hes living in when his son dies and he gets to read his sons writings and the influence he had in society. James realizes that there are issues in the world and he hasn't done what he can to fix them. In the end of the book, James ends up donating resources and money to Ndotsheni. He builds a dam for the people and sends them milk for the sick children. He also gave Kumalo money for a new church and sends a man to teach them to farm. He's realized that there was so much he could do to change in just his village and he took the initiative to overcome diversity and help the people no matter their race.
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"But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it...I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating." -Msimangu
Msimangu is a priest from Johannesburg who helps Stephen Kumalo find his sister and his son. He is a very unselfish man who wants to help in anyway he can. He stands by Kumalo through out their whole journey and helps them through the struggle of having his son kill someone. Msimangu gives Kumalo money to compensate for all the money that he spent in Johannesburg. He gives him all his money because he wants to go into a life where he doesn't need any of his things, he wants to be a monk. He wants to live a life where he can teach his religion and help everyone.
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"There is no lie in it, for I said to myself, I shall not lie anymore, all the rest of my days, nor do anything more that is evil." -Absalom Kumalo
Absalom is the son of Stephen Kumalo. He went to Johannesburg looking for his aunt but he never returned home. Him and his cousin got in some trouble with a bunch of different people. They were stealing all kinds of things and had to keep moving from place to place so they wouldn't get caught. Absalom got a young girl pregnant and in the end the do end up getting married. Him and two other boys broke into Arthur Jarvis's house and Absalom accidentally killed Arthur Jarvis and he is proven guilty and in the very end is hung.
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"For the voice has magic in it, and i has threatening in it, and it is as though Africa itself were in it." -John Kumalo
John Kumalo is the brother of Stephen Kumalo. He moved to Johannesburg because he does not want to answer to the chief of their tribe anymore. He feels like the chief is not superior to him so he should not be in charge. Now in the city he is a great politician, a voice for the natives, he wants to create change for his people. When his son breaks into Arthur Jarvis's house he gets a lawyer to prove that his son was never there so that Absalom takes all the blame.
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"Our natives today produce criminals and prostitutes and drunkards, not because it is their nature to do so, but because their simple system of order and tradition and convention has been destroyed. It was destroyed by the impact of our own civilization." -Arthur Jarvis
Arthur Jarvis is the son of James Jarvis. He grew up in Ndotsheni and then moved into the city. He was a writer who influenced many people. He wrote about all the real problems going on in South Africa and how most people don't even know about them and about how he didn't realize the issues until he went into Johannesburg. He was fighting with the blacks for equal treatment. He believed that the reason natives committed crime was because their traditional order and convention has been destroyed by the white people who have pushed them lower in the social system. He was murdered by Absalom Kumalo while they were trying to break into his house. Even after he was dead he influenced many people through his writings.
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