Who's To Blame For The Murder Of Alan Paton?

I have come to believe that Absalom should be sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis. Arthur Jarvis was a very kind and intelligent man and I do not think there was any reason for anyone to kill him. Arthur Jarvis was also a well-respected reformer in the black community. Arthur loved South Africa and was torn about the racial segregations and he even wrote comparisons to that with South Africa and a cheating woman: “It is only that one's love grows deep and passionate, as a man may love a woman who is true, false, cold, loving, cruel, and afraid” (Paton 158). Arthur sees the flaws and problems in South Africa, and these difficulties have only made his love for his country even more deep and passionate. Therefore Arthur was not a racist man who provoked any men to murder him for absolutely no reason. …show more content…
As a servant of a white man, you hear about everyone's business in the towns all around you. Everyone heard about Absalom going to the reformatory but I do not know for what reason but it could not be a good thing for anyone to be in there. Though the reformatory is there for people who break the law so we see here that Arthur is not a very good man. I believe that Absalom had bad intentions that day for sure and he meant to kill Arthur. I am concluding that Absalom was just hanging out with the wrong crowd of people and they lead him to bad intentions. “I did not like his son’s friends. Nor did my husband.” (Paton