...bad situation hich they have no.Six eeks later oods gives to friends of Biko a job in his nespaper. The one is Tenjy Mtintso and the other is Mapetla Mohapi. Mapetla takes oods to a footballmatch of the black. Instead of the match Biko helds a speach. After the match Biko is caught by the police because an informer of the government had told the police about the speach. In the police office Biko gets hit by Captain De et. After the fight beteen Biko and De et to policemen thro Biko out of the office. To eeks later Biko is a main itness for the defence of to student organizations ho arranged to years before a large meeting in support of the ne government in Mozambique. oods prints the ords of Biko although it is against the la. In this night Captain De et and to other policemen smash all things of value in the church here Biko ants to make a centre for black people. Donald oods cannot print this in his nespaper because the itness is a black man called Dilima and if oods prints his name, Dilima ould not survive until the end of the eek. So oods flies to the Minister of Police and speaks ith him about the incident. The minister declares him that he ill pursues that matter because he doesnt ant that such sort of things happen. Sunday afternoon to policemen come and ant to kno the name of the itness from oods. oods explains them that he as by the Minister and he cannot say the name but the to anser that they have order from the top. oods is not impressed by these and sends them aay ithout saying the name. It does not happen anything for eeks and oods thinks that it is alright but it is not. One night the to policemen check the passport of oods black housekeeper Evalina. oods thros them out of his property. On the next day three men jump out of a car and take Mapetla in it. Donald oods thinks that Mapetla gets beaten by them and that they make an example so that no other black person ill dare him. To days later Tenjy gets arrested ithout any charges. The police dont ant to give information about the to and after a eek Mapetla is dead. The official explanation of the death from Mapetla is, that he hanged himself. But Biko and oods cannot believe that. Biko demands a inquest and ilfred Cooper represents Mapetlas family and Biko. Tenjy is the main itness at the inquest but the judge closes the inquest ithout fix the death of Mapetla on anybody.Biko drives to Cape Ton although he knos that it is very dangerous for him. On the ay to Cape Ton the car as stopped by the police and they ant to see the papers from Biko. As they recognize the person in the car, they arrest him promptly. Six days later the police call a doctor to look at Biko. The body is covered ith bruises, the forehead 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 is unconscious they ant to bring him to the police hospital in Pretoria hich is thousand kilometres aay and not to Port Elizabeth ich is only four kilometres aay. The doctor cannot do anything against the police and so they put Biko naked on a blank hich lies on the floor of the Land Rover. Then they drive ith Biko on the back on thousand kilometres rough country roads and during the journey Bikos head is bumping on the floor.Biko dies and oods prints a article about him ith the headline BIKO DIES IN CUSTODY. The Minister of Police denies police responsibility and he says that Biko has been arrested outside his banning area. The Minister also means, that Biko refused to eat and so they brought him to hospital and there he died. One day after Bikos death Ntsiki oods, ho is the ife of Biko, and Ken go to the mortuary. As the official leaves the room Ken puts out a small camera and makes photos of Bikos body.The funeral is in the stadium and hen oods and his ife arrive thousands of black people ith pictures of Biko are there. There ould come more black people but the police sent them back. After a speach the crod begin to sing the African Song hich Steven Biko loved. Some hite students see ho oods sings and they come to him and ask him if he understands these African ords and he starts to sing in English.oods ants that other nespapers rite about Bikos death but they are afraid because it is very dangerous. So oods decides to emigrate to Ne York. On the airport to soldiers stopp oods and bring him in an office. There Lieutnant Beukes reads from a arrent to oods that he becomes a banning person. No he starts to rite a book about Bikos life and after speaking ith some friends he comes to the decision, if he publishes the book he and his family has to escape if they dont ant to get killed. But also the escape is very dangerous. oods flight is successful and so his family follos. The family gets passports from the United Nations and flies aay. In the plain oods looks out of the indo and in his mind he hears the crod of thousands singing at Bikos funeral.CHARACTERSDonald oods is one of the important persons in the story. He is married ith endy and has five children. oods is forty-to years old but because of his thick grey hair he looks older. He ears glasses.He is the editor of the Daily Dispatch. In the beginnig of the book he doesnt believe that black people should be alloed to vote. He also accepts the las that forced blacks and hites to live in separate areas. There is one thing he cannot like and that is police brutality against the black. Later in the book he becomes a good friend of Biko and he helps him to fight for more rights for the black. So he gets troubles ith the government and in the end he has to escape of the country here he has born.Stephan Biko is the second important person in the book. He is a serious and handsome young black man. Stephan is married ith Ntsiki and has to children. He is also a banned person hich means that he can only be in his banning area and he is able to speak only ith one person except his family. Biko gets in this situation because he fights for more rights for the black. His fight is ithout eapons. Stephan alays goes out of his banning area and so once he gets caught and brutaly murdered by the police. HAT DOES THE AUTHOR ANT TO SAY ITH THE BOOKI think he ants to sho us the bad situation of the black in South Africa. In some parts of the book he did it really ell. The sentence In your orld everything hite is normal - the ay the orld should be - and everything black is rong, or some kind of mistake hich I took from the book, is not out of place in our society. If you atch TV you can see that all bad persons ear dark clothes or drive black cars and the good persons ear bright clothes and drive hite cars. Also the Austrian ord Scharzfahrer has a negative meaning and there are many other things. So I think the author ould say in this book that not all black things are bad or mistakes and really not black people....
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