Have you ever been in a bad situation and done something out of impulse? According to Webster Dictionary, “Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.” Murder has never been taken as a grain of salt. Punishments can be as extensive as life in prison, or even sentenced to death. Absalom claimed that he pulling the trigger of his revolver was out of fear, but murder is murder. Absalom’s killing of Arthur Jarvis was done intentionally. Ndotsheni is “a far place where there are no streets, lights, buses, and it is a very quiet” (Paton 145). Johannesburg is the exact opposite. Even families that live just outside of Johannesburg in Sophiatown are also afraid because of the amount of crime that goes on. In chapter five, Paton wrote, “It was not long ago that a gang of these youths attacked one of our own African girls; they took her bag, and her money, and would have raped her too but that people came running out of the houses” (52). These two quotes show the contrast between Johannesburg and Ndotsheni. Which can also imply that people born in Ndotsheni are raised correctly to be good people who obey the law. In Absalom’s trial, a bad family background cannot be used …show more content…
His sister, Gertrude, a religious farm girl from Ndotsheni, became a prostitute. Also, his brother John, became a politician who comes off to be