Discuss how tsotsi. Morris tshabalala and the baby all embody the struggle to survive May 22, 2019 10:11 PM By: keanuadams11.

• Tsotsi And Morris Scene
• Tsotsi Morris Plains
• Tsotsi Morris Tshabalala

His name was Gumboot Dhlamini and he had been chosen. But he never knew until it was too late. They gave him no warning. Gumboot was a man. Measured in hope he stood in his shoes tall amongst men, but. Tsotsi bumps into a handicapped man, Morris (Jerry Mofokeng) at the subway station before meeting his friends and he yells at him. Tsotsi just stares at him when Morris spits on his shoe. The man leaves and Tsotsi follows him all the way to a quiet spot. Tsotsi stops him and tells him to walk, that he is faking his leg injury. Tsotsi’s inability to steal from Morris: discuss in groups the two things which stay his hand. Chapter 8: Feeding the baby Tsotsi’s plan to feed the baby condensed milk fails and he forces Miriam Ngidi to feed the baby. If Morris was reborn, is Tsotsi also able to experience a rebirth? Hearing Morris saying he wants to live, despite his circumstances, gives a person hope. ‘Sunshine,’ he said. ‘Sunshine in stones. The warm stones of the streets. I felt it tonight at the end of the day. I must feel it tomorrow.

Chapter 1

Tsotsi And Morris Scene

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.

Tsotsi Morris Plains

Chapter 9

Tsotsi Morris Tshabalala

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

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.

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

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.

Tsotsi Essay

Throughout the book called “Tsotsi”, Tsotsi showed amazing growth in his way of living, how he acted, and in general how much of a better person he became. Before that though, Tsotsi was a thug that had no memory of his past. In the beginning of the book, Tsotsi was known as a street thug that gave no sympathy to anyone and was considered a very dangerous person to be around. In the middle of the book, Tsotsi starts to change as a person as he shows certain traits that were not suppose to be expected because of how he was before. And towards the end of the book, Tsotsi now I could say has become a “dynamic” character as he changed throughout the book for the better. Here are examples that Tsotsi has changed.

In the beginning of the book, Tsotsi like I said, was a very dangerous person to be around. No one knew who Tsotsi was, not even himself and if people were to try and ask questions about him or, Tsotsi would react and it was to react with violence and anger. He showed this specifically to one of his friends, Boston in the beginning of the book. Boston was in a bar called “Soekies” with Tsotsi and everyone else in the gang. Tsotsi got into a fight with Gumboot and Tsotsi ended up killing him. When Boston tried to question Tsotsi and basically tell him he went to far, Tsotsi turned on Boston and beat him up crippling Boston really badly.

In the middle of the book, Tsotsi is starting to change and show traits that were never expected for Tsotsi to have, not because he can’t have them, but because of how he acted before. This all started when he found a baby from one of his victims. This baby is what gave Tsotsi one of the first glimpses from his past and for that to happen, Tsotsi started to take care of the baby and get certain necessities like for example milk. Not only that, Tsotsi for the first time also showed sympathy for someone. That person was Morris Tshabalala. Tsotsi had plans on killing Morris and when he had his chance, the little talk with his victim is what I think changed Tsotsi’s plans of killing him. Not only did he feel bad for Morris but he also didn’t kill him.

Towards the end of the book, Tsotsi to me has become a “dynamic” character because he has changed so much since the beginning of the book. An example of this is Boston. In the beginning of the book, Tsotsi beat up Boston for his disagreement of his actions, but towards the end, Tsotsi returns to “Soekies” bar and brought a crippled Boston to his place to talk. He showed he still cared for him and had sympathy for what he did to him way back. Another and probably the biggest example to show Tsotsi’s growth is the baby. He now wasn’t only taking care of it to get another glimpse or reminder of his past, he is taking care of the baby because it is now his full responsibility. It is now a must for him to keep taking care of that baby and he really proved this at the end of the story where he ended up risking his own life to protect that baby. At the end, Tsotsi did die while going to protect the baby, but when his body was found, he had a smile on his face. Nothing was said about the baby at the end but my guess was Tsotsi had saved the baby causing to have a smile on his face at the end.

With this being said, throughout the book, Tsotsi has “grew” so much as a person. As starting off as a street thug that was very dangerous and violent, he turned into a person that showed responsibility, sympathy, and care. Something you wouldn’t expect from a guy who before, was not that type of person.