This story is about Lindiwe, a young African girl who originally was born and raised in Johannesburg but who now lives and works in London at the Centre of Poverty in the King’s Cross area. Lindiwe is a strong and adventuress girl who received an amazingly chance to go see the world outside of Africa, and she took it. She went to London where she now sacrifices all her time to the poor people and the denizens. Although she is doing this heroic action her conscience is bad. She often thinks about her family at home and even though she sends them money so there is a fall in her living standard, she still feels bad. Instead of enjoying it all Lindiwe feels guilty being the lucky one. She wants to go home, but the scholarship is a to big opportunity to let go of.
P.1 ll. 14-16 “She had thought she could be of use to the denizens of King’s Cross, but there was nothing she could do for them: they had gone beyond despair into an underworld of their own”. Lindiwe really wants to help these denizens to integrate into the modern western society, but she is losing faith in her dream to help people who need it because they don’t want her help. All this changes when she meets John Fortune. Reverend John Fortune is a sixty-year-old; tall, dark priest who Lindiwe feels is following her around the area the first couple of times they meet. When he calls her she convinces him to go talk to her boss Ahmad. A little while after, Mr. Fortune shows up at the Centre. Lindiwe becomes extremely surprised when it appears that her boss Ahmad recognizes John Fortune as a participant at the World Council of Churches in 1969. Ahmad keeps on telling Lindiwe about all of John Fortunes heroic actions. John Fortune is a man who fought for his country; against enemies as well as the country’s own government. Meanwhile Ahmad is telling John Fortune’s story Lindiwe notices how John Fortune’s glasses is mist over like he is crying behind the thick glasses. In the end John Fortune says: p. 3 ll. 32-34 “What could be worse, he asked Ahmad, than a missionary without a mission? And then he smiled that smile of his again and added, unless it is a mission without missionary?” At that point I think that Lindiwe knows what she has to do. She realises that she is the missionary without the mission. She has the abilities but not the mission. The denizens will not except her help, and makes her a missionary without a mission. Lindiwe can also see that there is a mission, which needs a missionary. The mission is her native country and again she is the missionary. Lindiwe has tried freedom herself, and now it is her mission to get the freedom to South Africa just like John Fortune tried to do in India.
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