Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton :: Cry, The Beloved Country Essays

Social protest Cry the Beloved Country was a book written to communicate approximately change. Through out the book Alan Paton reveal the social in andices of southeast Africa. This whole book, although a fictional stories, is to protest of the ways of South Africa. Paton brings up the inequity of the natives verses the whites he makes points about education, favorable position, and separation. Paton clearly drawed that the white man is superiority to the blacken, he flops numerous examples throughout the apologue. The white man had more money, a better job, a nicer house With James Jarvis, Paton showed that he was superior by making him live on high place, because he was so a great deal superior than the natives that lived below him. At the end of the book James Jarvis (even though he had changed) could not get off his horse to talk to Steven Kumalo. He could have easily gotten off but "such a matter is not lightly done" (307). Paton includes this part in the nove l to show that the white man can be amicable with the natives, but they allow always have to come out on top. The whites needed to timbre like they were on a higher level than the natives. If this country ever so wants to be as one the whites are going to have to give up there need for superiority. Many times in the novel Paton showed there was a problem without even saying it. One of the study examples of that would be when he gave the scene of people asking "Have you a room to let?" and the response would always be "no I have no room to let"(85). Paton dosent outright say that its surly that there is not even enough housing for the natives and they have to bring up together in shared houses with no privicy at all. He just tells us the story and the reader recognize that there is a problem. Paton offten leves it up to the reader to figure out the social injustices of South Africa. When Kumalo was talking about his son Absolam he verbalise "he is in prison for the nigh terrible deed a man can do, He killed a white man" (144). Here Paton shows, again, how whites were considered to be superior to blacks. It could have been said the worst thing to do is kill a man, but in South Africas society it was not the same if a black man was murdered as compared to a white man.