Vocabulary
A wheeled vehicle
lorry
a young teen who wants desperately to help but has no real plan
Naledi
Reason the children take the trip
Dineo is very sick, maybe dying
Blacks were forced out of homes and sent to separate areas known as
a homeland
What Tiro is so fascinated with
Electric lights
Another name for a package
parcel
helps by telling Nono & Mmangwane where the kids went; also gets water for them while they are gone
Poleng
Why Mma works in Jo'Burg and not near home
She needs to make money for her children
Was thrown in prison as a political prisoner for many, many years; eventually was elected President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Why the age of 16 is so important
If you are over 16 you need a pass to travel around
to fall forward
hurling
Died from working in the mines.
The children's father
What Mma calls the people she works for
Madam & Master
Many youth were killed here during an uprising.
Soweto
why the children needed to hide at the train station
They didn't have a pass
wave, swelling; rushing motion
surge
was arrested for protesting; has since gone away but vows to return to fight again
Dumi
Why the orange peels needed to be buried
So the owner wouldn't find them and punish the workers for eating them
Who was allowed to possess a gun
Only white police officers
One thing that seems to out of place at the hospital
the dirty water fountain, the long lines, the mess, the number of people
not clear
vague
helped the children even though he could have been punished severely
the boy on the orange farm; or the truck driver
Two things the police did to the man with no pass
Slapped/hit him, took him to jail
bi-racial citizens were known as
colored
why Mme went to the hospital alone
in case Dineo had died