Word: vercueil
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...Curren returns from her doctor's office with news confirming her death sentence, she finds in her yard Vercueil, a foul-smelling vagrant who lives off his wits and other people's garbage. Together they forge an unexpected friendship that provides them both with the only breath of kindness in a world that has forsaken its humanity. First, however, they must surmount their differences. Mrs. Curren is determined to fight to the last, trying to stamp out South Africa's proliferating injustices; Vercueil wants only to disappear into his cardboard shack without responsibility to anyone or anything...
...against black and young against old; everyone is forced to take sides. A central event involves the murder of Bheki, 15, a youth who could have been sired by any of today's black townships. Just days before, Mrs. Curren watched helplessly as Bheki taunted and beat the drunken Vercueil. "How will they treat their own children?" she scolds Florence, her maid and Bheki's mother. "What love will they be capable of?" "They are good children," Florence responds without apology. "They are like iron, we are proud of them...
...pound class: J. P. Brown '14, S. L. French '15, W. E. Griffitts, Jr., '14, M. L. Hodgson '16, C. H. Rand 1L., and J. Vercueil...
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