cry freedom (resumo)

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BY JOHN BRILEY SLIDES BY VICTOR DUTRA

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Consiste no Resumo do livro Cry Freedom da Oxford. Conta um pouco da vida e história de Steve Biko durante a era do Apartheid.

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Page 1: Cry Freedom (Resumo)

BY JOHN BRILEY

SLIDES BY VICTOR DUTRA

Page 2: Cry Freedom (Resumo)

At the beginning of the story, Donald Woods, the chief editor of Daily Dispatch, which was a liberal newspaper, is sitting in his office when some pictures, of a police officer beating a woman, comes to his attention. Woods didn't like the violence between the government and the black population. Woods was worried with the problems that would happen if he published those pictures.Then, he talks about Biko, and we learn that Woods doesn't appreciate Biko's ideologies and therefore has no problem publishing criticism against him.

At the Beginning of chapter two, Doctor Mamphela Ramphele, a young black woman, comes to talk with Woods because of what he has published on Biko.They have a talk and with time, Woods is persuaded to meet Biko.

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Woods goes to a black township to see Biko, that is the beginning of a great friendship between the two men. Biko accepts Woods' offer considering his education and is driven to a clinic for black people in Zanempilo. He says he created it because black people have to believe they have the same abilities as the white people and that they too should believe in themselves.

At he end of chapter three, we learn more about Woods's family. He has a wife named Wendy and their children are Duncan, Dillon, Gavin and Mary. His wife isn't very pleased that her husband goes to black township to talk about Black Consciousness, but she supports him anyway.

Then Biko invites Woods to a black township outside the city to show him the living conditions imposed by the government. Biko even invites Woods to eat at his place with his wife, Nitsiki, and some friends, Tenjy Mtintso and his aunt. Woods begins to change his mind and to agree with Biko's desire for a South Africa where blacks have the same rights and freedoms as the whites.

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In chapter five, Biko asks Woods if he would be willing to hire two friends of his to work at the Daily Dispatch. Mapetla and Tenjy have to cover black news. Woods co-workers are shocked when they arrive at the office because they are the first black people to have worked there, it is a difficult adjustment.A few weeks later, Mapetla takes Woods and his friend Ken to a football match with all black players. But instead of the match, Biko made a speech. Saying he wishes to change the racist mentality of his country, he wants to build a South Africa worth living in where black and white people can live in peace and harmony together.

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Right after Biko's speech Capitain De Wet has a confrontation with Biko and says that he wants to see him in prison because of his undesired point of view and big ideas. In court, Judge Regter and Biko have a big talk in which he has the right to give his point of view, he explains that ( black people must not give in, they must find ways to develop hope).

Woods prints everything said in court and publishes it in his newspaper. Here on proving his true support to black people.In chapter eight, De Wet, from the security police, sabbotages a church during the night to pretend black people have done it. But Dilima, a woman who was hidden in the church, sees everything he did. When Woods discover this event, he immediately goes to Pretonia, to see Kruger, the Minister of Police, who pretend to fight police illegality. But actually, he doesn't fight illegality as he pretends.

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The following day, Kruger sends two men to force Woods to give the name of the witness that was in the church. But Woods didn't say anything and nothing happens for several weeks. Then he is obliged by authorities to go to court in Pretonia and give the name of the witness, but he still doesn' t say it.

At the beginning of chapter 10, two policemen come to Wood's house to ask for the papers of Evalina, the black servant of the Woods family, but Donald forces them to leave his property.

The following day, the police take their revenge. They arrest Tenjy Mtintso and Mapetla, who dies in Prison, and they arrest Biko too. They hit him, don't give him food, and let him die like a dog in custody the 11th September 1977. After that everyone attends his funeral, and Woods takes pictures of his body because he wants to show the way police officer treated Biko but unfortunately he can't publish them.

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So he decides to leave the country but his wife doesn't want to leave all she has. Then their daughter is attacked by the police and almost dies.That's the moment they decide to plan their escape. His wife and children go by car to Lesotho and Donald goes on his way for not being caught.At the end of the book they all arrive healthy in Lesotho to take a flight to Great Britain so that Woods can publish his book on political problems in South Africa.

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