Cry Freedom

Donald woodland is an editor of the insouciant Dispatch, a Journal in East London, southwesterly Africa. champion morning he gets spic-and-spans of a jurisprudence burst in the dingy township Crossroads which lies in Cape Town. He as well gets photos of the raid and he decides to print them although the govern ment doesn t chuck up the sponge to print such photos. timber doesn t believe the demand of the black plurality but he is trained as a attorney and doesn t like practice of law brutality against black nation. So he also put outs an editorial virtually a Biko, the leadership of ?The SC. The next daytime Dr.Mamphela who molds for Biko in is clinic, deals to woodwind instrument right to speak to him, roughly this article. She is very angry, because she thinks, that woodwind instrument has printed rubbish near Biko and that he is unin editioned astir(predicate) the ideas that Biko has. So she invents him to meet Biko in his prohibition expanse. chapter 2 and 3 al nigh days subsequent wood meets Steven Biko in an old church were he hopes to make a centre for black people. First he is unfavorable against Biko, but then he listens to Bikos opinion and they mentally changed the roles. Biko also goes with woodland to the clinic, which Biko has built.The clinic is only for black people, with black workers and a black doctor up. But woodwind instrument already think that black and whits should work together, but he also at a lower fall outstands, that the blacks wishings something that they put up themselves. At the end Biko invites forest to come and listen how black people in South Africa really live. chapter 4 and 5 In the black township, they eat with a black family. Biko, the family and are discussing or so the system, the history how the white came to South Africa and how the black people got their bad home which they have now.After this visit forest change his take heed, because he sees for the first condemnation h ow worse the black has to live, how big their espair is but also how strong their togetherness stay. At the end of this day Biko and woodwind instrument become friends. chapter 6 Six weeks later Woods gives TenJy and Mapetla, two friends of Biko, a Job in his newspaper. Mapetla takes Woods and stack to a footballmatch of the black. Instead of the match Biko helds a speech. Ken and Woods were convinced(p) by this speech and the ideas Biko represent. hapter 7 After the match Biko is caught by the practice of law because an informer of the government had told the police about the speech. In the police office Biko gets hit by Captain De derisory. After he fght between Biko and De Wet two policemen throw Biko out of the office. Two weeks later Biko is a chief(prenominal) envision for the defence of two student organizations who arranged two historic period before a large see in support of the new government in Mozambique. Woods prints the words of Biko although it is against th e law. chapter 8 In this wickedness Captain De Wet and two other policemen smash all things of esteem in the church.Donald Woods cannot print this in his newspaper because the witness is a black man called Dilima and if Woods prints his name, Dilima would kill by the police. So Woods approach to Kruger, the Minister of Police, and speaks with him about the incident. The minister declares him that he will pursues that government issue because he doesn t want that such sort of things happen. Woods thinks that the police men arent as worse as m some(prenominal) blacks think, Woods unfortuantely place him. chapter 9 But on sunday afternoon two policemen come and want to know the name of the witness from Woods.Woods explains them that he was by Kruger and he gets angry because Kruger had betrayed him. Because the two havent a warrant Woods could send them away(p) without saying the name. It does not happen anything for weeks and Woods thinks that it is alright. But it is not. chapte r 10 One night the two policemen check the passport of Woods black housekeeper Evalina. Woods throws them out of his property. The next day, the police take revenge Three men jump out of a automobile and take Mapetla in it. Donald Woods thinks that Mapetla gets beaten by them and that they make an example so that no other black person will dare him.Two days later TenJy gets arrested without any charges. After a week Mapetla is dead. The official explanation of the death from Mapetla is, that he anged himself. But Biko and Woods cannot believe that, so Biko demands a inquest. TenJy is the main witness at the inquest but the Judge closes the inquest without fix the death of Mapetla on anybody. chapter 1 1 Biko drives to Cape Town to speak in an important coming together of black students although he knows that its forbidden for him. On the way back form Cape Town the car was stopped by the police and they want to see the papers from Biko.As they recognize the person in the car, they arrest him rapidly to the prison in Port Elizabeth. Six days later the police call a doctor to look at Biko. The body is cover with bruises, the fore top dog and eyes seriously injured. On the chest and lips are cuts. The doctor orders to bring Biko in a hospital. Although the doctor tells them that Biko possible has a mastermind damage they want to bring him to the police hospital in capital of South Africa a 1000 kilometres away and not to Port Elizabeth Wich is only 4 kilometres away because they would have the control about him.The doctor cannot do anything against the police and so they put Biko on a blanket at the floor in the back of a Land Rover. Then they drive with Biko on thousand km rough dry land roads and during the Journey Bikos head is bumping on he floor. chaper 12 Biko dies and Woods prints a article about him with the headline BIKO DIES IN CUSTODY. The Minister of Police denies police debt instrument and he says that Biko has been arrested outside his banning compass and died because he starved himself to dead.One day after Bikos dead Ntsiki, who is the wife of Biko, Woods and Ken go to the morgue to find out how Biko actually died. They were all shocked by the manner of Bikos body, the lips are swollen, a huge lump on the forehead and umpteen bruises around his eyes. Ken suddenly puts out a small television camera and makes photos of Bikos body. Woods and his wife arrive at the funeral and they see thousands of black people with pictures of Biko. There would come more(prenominal) black people but in that location are road-blocks of the police. The mood of the crowd is angry but also sorrowful.After a speech the crowd begin to sing the African Song which Steven Biko loved. chapter 13 Woods wants that other newspapers write about Bikos death, because if he does, the government would shut down the Daily Dispatch. But all the other newspapers are also scared and wouldnt fight the system this way. So Woods decides to fly to New Yor k under a false name. The day he leave he sends the photos to England an the States printed the pictures of Bikos body and demands on an inquest. But on the airport two securitys stopp Woods and bring him in an office.There Lieutnant Beukes reads from a warrent to Woods that he becomes a banning person for five years. chapter 14 Although the police forbid Woods to write he starts to write a book about Biko s life, because he thinks that Bikos ideas have to live on. family has to escape from South Africa if they don t want to get killed. Wendy first doesnt agree with this idea and the two have a big conflict. A few days later, the hildren of Woods reached a nom de guerre parcel with poissoned Shirts. After this awful experience Wendy also wants to publish the book. hapter 15 So Woody quickly begins to plan the escape with Father Kani and Bruce McCullough. The thirty-first December in the night Woods escape begins He veil himself in father Curren and Wendy drives Woods to King Willia ms town, from where he hitch-hike to a place beyond Queenstown. There he meet Father Kant, who drives him to the edge of the river Telle. In the early morning of the 1st January Woods should crossover the river but it doesnt work because the river was too wide and deep. So he went back to the edge of the river. chapter 16 Woods knows that Tami, a friend of Biko lives near, so he walks to him.Tami brings him by car to the Telle Bridge, when Woods wants to open the gate, a Land Rover stopp in former of him. Fortunately the man, called Moses, was from the postal service and he even take Woods to Maseru. At the passport station he has no problems, so he gets to Lesotho without more problems. There he quickly phones to his family, they also follow. chaper 17 Moses brings Woods to the point where he meets Bruce, who brings him to Maseru, where he talks to the Brithis cting high Cmmisioner to ask him to inaugurate their country. chapter 18 The next morning Woods family also arrives in Le sotho.The hearty family gets passports from the United Nations and flyes with a private pilot, who wills to fly over South Africa without landing. Woods felt a little sad when he sees his homeland because he might never see it again. But he was also happy, because he will publish his book and show Bikos ideas to the whole world. He hopes that mens minds could be change, before the price become too high. In his mind he hears the crowd of thousands singing at Bikos funeral. Donald Woods is one of the important persons in the story. He is married with Wendy and has five children.Woods is 42 and the editor of the Daily Dispatch. In the beginnig of the book he doesn t believe that black people should be allowed to vote and he also accepts the laws that forced blacks and whites to live in separate areas. He only disagree the police brutality against the black. The meeting with Biko in the curch, when they change the roles mentals, the speech of Biko at the stadium and his first resume of the township, when he feels the strong sense of togetherness Woods change his mind about his political ideas. He becomes a good friend of Biko and he helps him to fght for more rights for the black.So he gets troubles with the government and in the end he has to escape of the country where he has born, because he wants to publish the book about Biko. Stephan Biko is a serious, clever and handsome young black man. He is a warm and quietly person. Stevenn is married with Ntsiki and has two children. He is a banned person which gist that he can only be in his banning area and he is able to speak only with one person pretermit his family. Biko gets in this situation because he fghts for more rights for the black. He is one of the most important leader of the Black Consciousness.Steven often goes out of his banning area and so once he gets caught and finally kill by the is utilise to the struggle for black rights. For him South Africa was for black and white, they only had to fin d a way to live together without violence. Biko is banned because of his leadership of a thrust called The Black Consciousness (equal rights for blacks and whites, live together without violence, black should be high-minded of being black, blacks should know their history, not anymore accept the handship imposed by the system, confrontation without violence)