Break the Custom in Cry, The Beloved Country The disconsolate custom between blacks and whites conveys a major issue. The lack of association within people creates a society in form of dystopia. Furthermore, reveals society perceives ones color to interpret character more than their heart and intentions. In the contemporary South African novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton discloses through Polysyndeton how Apartheid creates an atmosphere of separation, inequality, and fear, and thereby reveals the inhumanity within South Africa. Segregation has an effect of misconception and division. In short, Kumalo feels "pleasure," as he communicates with the "small white boy," because he "speaks," Zulu (Paton 268). Such emotion evokes the language barrier and lack of mutual
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To avoid the sentiment of embarrasment from following a black man, Jarvis follows "the old man [Kumalo]," as if "not following," him (Paton 215). Namely, white males fear to associate with black males and vice versa because of society appraisal. Thus, Paton divulges how the public forces people to follow societal norms and bring fear if they even fancy to break the custom. Moreover, Stephen Kumalo travels to Arthur Jarvises home and encounters Mr. Jarvis: "He took off his hat, showing the whiteness of his head, and he looked startled and afraid and he was trembling" (Paton 211). Paton discloses how when one suffers from a previous event, they fear the event will occur once again and cause the same pain as before. In Apartheid, society demolished the colored man emotionally, mentally and phisically. In Cry, The Beloved Country, Paton teaches how division between individuals is created through misjudgement and disunity. In addition, he teaches how embarrasement and fear should not connote a barrier to claim justice. In conclusion, individuals must live united with equal rights and fearless to expatiate beliefs and
To avoid the sentiment of embarrasment from following a black man, Jarvis follows "the old man [Kumalo]," as if "not following," him (Paton 215). Namely, white males fear to associate with black males and vice versa because of society appraisal. Thus, Paton divulges how the public forces people to follow societal norms and bring fear if they even fancy to break the custom. Moreover, Stephen Kumalo travels to Arthur Jarvises home and encounters Mr. Jarvis: "He took off his hat, showing the whiteness of his head, and he looked startled and afraid and he was trembling" (Paton 211). Paton discloses how when one suffers from a previous event, they fear the event will occur once again and cause the same pain as before. In Apartheid, society demolished the colored man emotionally, mentally and phisically. In Cry, The Beloved Country, Paton teaches how division between individuals is created through misjudgement and disunity. In addition, he teaches how embarrasement and fear should not connote a barrier to claim justice. In conclusion, individuals must live united with equal rights and fearless to expatiate beliefs and