He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her. - Peter Abrahams

I remember the many people who suddenly invaded the house, making me feel stranger in my own home...With his (father’s) going, the order and stability that had been in my life dissolved. There was no breadwinner. So we had to leave the place that had been our home.

He's just a mine boy ... Yes. Grand, but not a human being yet. Just a mine boy.

A man's a man to the extent that he asserts himself. There's no assertion in your mine boy. There is confusion and bewilderment and acceptance. Nothing more.