Social injustices are universal. Whether it be someone part of the holocaust, or an african man being discriminated against, they are in no ways different. Although the Social injustices against the jewish people and the segregation of african may seem different they actually are very alike.
The Lost Childhood talks about the struggle a young boy and his family had to go through to survive the gruesome German Holocaust after Germany sabotaged Russia during world war two. Yehuda Nir recounts the hardships and stories about his family’s struggle for survival in a cruel world that impoverished them and is out to kill them. But how is this story related to the story of Cry the Beloved Country, a story of racial segregation and the search of a father's lost son? First, the two stories do …show more content…
father turned around once and gave me a faint smile, like the I had seen on his face a week before when he ad carried out the radio… I stood in place for several minutes until the prisoners were gone. I would never see my father again.” (Nir 26)
This hardship can be linked back to Cry The Beloved Country. In the book, Kumalo's son is sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in South Africa. His son represents the wrongful discrimination of people, not unlike the jews in the holocaust. As the reality of the situation sink in for Kumalo’s son, he starts to cry, saying to his father, “I am afraid… I am afraid” (Paton 231). These books are also related in that they both question people’s faith to a religion and question if there really is a God. Kumalo, a priest, is revealed many time sin the book to be questionable about his faith to God. For example, while questioning his soon to be step daughter, Kumalo asks her if she would be willing to sleep with him, knowing she could not retort, a repulsive act for a priest. After realising what he just said and “He sat down and covered his face with his hands… [and] was ashamed…” (Paton
The Lost Childhood talks about the struggle a young boy and his family had to go through to survive the gruesome German Holocaust after Germany sabotaged Russia during world war two. Yehuda Nir recounts the hardships and stories about his family’s struggle for survival in a cruel world that impoverished them and is out to kill them. But how is this story related to the story of Cry the Beloved Country, a story of racial segregation and the search of a father's lost son? First, the two stories do …show more content…
father turned around once and gave me a faint smile, like the I had seen on his face a week before when he ad carried out the radio… I stood in place for several minutes until the prisoners were gone. I would never see my father again.” (Nir 26)
This hardship can be linked back to Cry The Beloved Country. In the book, Kumalo's son is sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in South Africa. His son represents the wrongful discrimination of people, not unlike the jews in the holocaust. As the reality of the situation sink in for Kumalo’s son, he starts to cry, saying to his father, “I am afraid… I am afraid” (Paton 231). These books are also related in that they both question people’s faith to a religion and question if there really is a God. Kumalo, a priest, is revealed many time sin the book to be questionable about his faith to God. For example, while questioning his soon to be step daughter, Kumalo asks her if she would be willing to sleep with him, knowing she could not retort, a repulsive act for a priest. After realising what he just said and “He sat down and covered his face with his hands… [and] was ashamed…” (Paton