In the opening passage of Paton’s novel Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ he shows us the beauty of South Africa through multiple biblical allusions with the majestic mountains‚ rolling hills‚ and low desolate valleys. Under all this beauty‚ the corruption of man comes to surface and destroys Gods’ perfect creation. The underlying meaning of this passage when broken down speaks of morals and how a persons’ take of society affects their moral character. With the use of biblical allusions and syntactical patterns
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: ALEXIS BARNES Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters| Name|Role in the story|Significance|Adjectives| MarlowKurtzAccountantCannibalsGeneral ManagerBrickmaker|European sailor‚ narrates the story‚ goes to Africa to pilot a riverboat for a Belgian ivory trading company‚ duty to seek out Kurtz‚ another riverboat captain‚ and bring him back to the trading companies central.Most successful
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Alan Paton is the clever author of Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚ a historical fiction book that displays the violences of injustice‚ discrimation‚ and imperialism that begins its story in the lonesome island of Ndotsheni where Kumalo lives. Stephen Kumalo‚ the main protagonist of Alan Paton’s Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚ is a meek Zulu pastor who has lived as a native in Ndotsheni. Kumalo discovers his sister Gertrude has fallen ill as addressed in a letter from a fellow priest in Johannesburg. Despite
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Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚ by Alan Paton‚ contains numerous comparisons between two different yet similar locations in South Africa. Each comparison further shows the deviation between the thoughts and traditions of old and new. The main conflicts in the novel revolve around the differences of two locations‚ Ndotsheni and Johannesburg‚ which represent the thoughts of the old and traditional ways‚ with the contradicting lifestyle and thoughts of the modern and progressive age. These thoughts are what
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touch every citizen’s life in some manner. The damaged people of Africa cannot protect their peers‚ for the racial barriers have disarmed them. Alan Paton uses tone to reveal the racial barriers in Africa‚ through his contemporary novel‚ Cry‚ the Beloved Country. Africa and her people grow weak and shrivel in the face of racial barriers. Discrimination against the natives prevents them from achieving great accomplishments; instead the view of the natives as a source of cheap labor prevails. The
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Major Works Data Sheet: “The Things They Carried” Title: “The Things They Carried” | Author: “Tim O’Brien” | Genre: Fiction | Date Published: 1990 | Plot summary: First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is in love with a junior in college named Martha while he is in the middle of a war in Vietnam. While he travels around‚ he and Martha write letters to each other‚ in which he writes with love and she just writes back as a friend. Throughout the story‚ O’Brien lists all of the supplies they all carry
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during WWII all the way to the African Americans in South Africa. Discrimination is a horrible event that has caused pain and suffering to even good people just based on the different ways people do things and the way some look. In the novel Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton‚ Paton talks about two fathers and sons whom are African Americans living in South Africa during the time after WWII. Racial discrimination in the city of Johannesburg at the time was at an all time high‚ “The tragedy is not
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Cry‚ The Beloved Country Commentary Fear and Religion And now for all the people of Africa‚ the beloved country. Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika‚ God save Africa. But he would not see that salvation. It lay afar off‚ because men were afraid of it. Because‚ to tell the truth‚ they were afraid of him‚ and his wife‚ and Msimangu‚ and the young demonstrator. And what was there evil in their desires‚ in their hunger? That man should walk upright in the land where they were born‚ and be free to use the fruits
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Major Works Data Sheet In this column‚ choose five quotations from the text‚ one focusing on each of the following literary elements: In this column‚ analyze the significance of your quotations. Allow the following questions to guide your responses: Why is this important? What does this reveal? Why does the author say it this way? What is the tone/mood of this passage? Theme "Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition." -Victor Frankenstein This is part of the theme of the book
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The Brokenness and Restoration in South Africa "Let there be work‚ bread‚ water and salt for all." - Nelson Mandela. This quote tells us that everyone should be equal and no man should have more power over another. There are many places in Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton in which they represent the brokenness and restoration. Racial segregation and the broken tribe were the two biggest issues in South Africa. The brokenness in South Africa is represented by the broken tribe and the segregation
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