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Chapter 2

1. After murdering Gumboot, Tsotsi, Boston, Die Aap, and Butcher go to Soekie's tavern to drink. Boston claims he was sick after the murder because he has decency, unlike the others. Die Aap and Butcher take Rosie outside to rape her. 2. When the others leave, Boston questions Tsotsi, breaking Tsotsi's rule against questions. Tsotsi beats Boston brutally, leaving him nearly dead at Soekie's tavern.

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Chapter 2

1. After murdering Gumboot, Tsotsi, Boston, Die Aap, and Butcher go to Soekie's tavern to drink. Boston claims he was sick after the murder because he has decency, unlike the others. Die Aap and Butcher take Rosie outside to rape her. 2. When the others leave, Boston questions Tsotsi, breaking Tsotsi's rule against questions. Tsotsi beats Boston brutally, leaving him nearly dead at Soekie's tavern.

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Chapter 2 - Tsotsi, Butcher, Boston, and Die Aap head to Soekie’s tavern after the murder to have a

few drinks. As they start drinking they begin to talk about Boston vomiting after the murder of
Gumboot. Boston claims that the only reason he was sick and the others were not, was because he
has decency unlike the rest of them. As the conversation advances Die Aap and Butcher take Rosie, a
girl who was also in Soekie’s tavern, outside to rape her. When the others leave Boston begins to
question Tsotsi about what he feels. This breaks one of Tsotsi’s rules: never ask questions. Tsotsi is
irritated by all the questions about his personal life. Tsotsi eventually has enough and brutally beats
Boston, leaving him in Soekie’s place beaten close to death.

CHAPTER 2
1. Why does Fugard set the episode at Soekie’s after the murder? Analyse the description of Soekie’s
place. How does this relate to a theme in the novel?
2. What evidence is there is the beginning of the chapter that Boston is losing control?
3. Explain why Boston asks Tsotsi questions.
4. Describe how the murder of Gumboot affects each of the gang members.
5. What else, other than vomit, did Boston spill after the murder? Why?
6. In what way is Boston like a “cornered animal trapped in a ring of ridicule”?
7. What do Boston’s words, “everything you are not”, reveal about his opinion of Die Aap and Butcher?
8. Identify what Tsotsi’s reaction to Boston’s questions reveals about his character.
9. “Your maag can’t take it.” What does this sentence tell us about the township language Fugard has
chosen for these thugs to use?
10. Tsotsi wants everything to stay “the same as always”. Why?
11. What is the function of Rosie’s presence in this chapter? Link this to a theme in the novel.
12. Why does Soekie try to get Rosie to go home?
13. For every two drinks the other have, Tsotsi has one. Explain why he does this.
14. What does Boston mean by ‘decency’?
15. “What is that?” What is ironic about Butcher’s reaction to Boston’s used of the word ‘decency’?
16. What disturbing truth do we learn about Tsotsi’s past?
17. Evaluate Tsotsi’s description of himself as ‘meaningless as a handful of stones’.

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