Alan Paton

What drives humans to make decision that can change their lives forever, or what anomaly causes humans to act differently or to even change? This question can be anwsered by reading Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country". Cry, {Book 1, starts in the poor village of Ndotsheni in South Africa, where Stephen Kumalo, the village Parson, recieves a letter from Msimangu, a fellow man of god, asking him to journey to the city of Johannesburg to see his "sick" sister Gurtrude.} {Kumalo arrives only to…

Kumalo’s family than on the people as a whole. Though Theophilus Msumangu said it well when he spoke this to Stephen; “left working for subsistence wages and enduring poor living conditions it is not surprising that crime rates among blacks are riding.” (Paton 73) Msumangu follows this with “but it has not suited him (the city of Johannesburg) to build something in the place of what is broken.” Meaning that the officials and hierarchy of Johnannesburg know that social injustice…

way that they can run for 24 hours, 7 days a week and may only be stopped for maintenance proposes. As they are highly automated and operate at very high volumes, it is very difficult to change over from producing one type of product to another. (Paton, Clegg, Hsuan, & Pilkinton, 2011) Examples of continuous production industries are the Beer Industry, Paper, Electricity Companies, etc. Figure 2: Continuous Water Treatment Process (Slack, Chambers, & Johnston, 2010) ASSEMBLY LINE PROCESSES…

incorporate them into society, and has created an inherently unequal environment where, not even those who try to succeed, have the slimmest chance of prospering. Paralleling the current situation with Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country, the repeated phrase “All roads lead to Johannesburg” (Paton 52) mirrors the current judicial system which has a 76.6% recidivism rate. Americans…

In the novel Cry, the Beloved Country written by Alan Paton many characters are examples of people who live out the core values that Northwest Nazarene University is founded on. One of those characters is Mr. Arthur Jarvis, sadly as readers of the novel, most of the information that we are given about him, happens after his death through letters that he left. He was a key member in the community, working with the African natives and though his work he begins to search for the truth behind the…

assurance that he will achieve reconciliation with his sister and son. He will enter with the hope, in all its naivete, of bringing his family together again. He will leave with the scattering dust of a family torn forever. Within the forlorn pages of Alan Paton's landmark novel Cry, The Beloved Country, lies a message often hard to swallow. The slow dissipation of Stephen Kumalo's family as consequence of the evils of Johannesburg and contrasting backgrounds within the novel illustrates the…

has the capability to deem that each and everyone persisting within it be corrupt and coaxed by the abyss. A stigma; a blemish upon the world as dictated upon by society and those amongst it. In the story of The Rise of The Shield Hero and well as Alan Paton’s Cry, The Beloved Country both focus on the unjust stigmas placed upon the protagonists for the choices…

Violence in the Media “What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?” as said by Alan Paton. In the midst of the lurking past, violence leaves a scar engraved in our history. Filling museums and carved into monuments, and in pages written in tears. Violence has been an instinct of mankind, nothing is better at destroying man than its own kin. From this aspect, the thought of a glowing screen causing our crude violence and manipulating our brains to commit any foul act is…

In the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, written by Alan Paton, apartheid plays a significant role throughout, as it encourages those who struggle with inequality to take a stand for themselves and try to change the way their lives are determined by others. Apartheid has been a problem for South Africa since the earlier nineteen hundreds because of the unjust society and heartbreaking rule of "white man's law over a black man's country," (Cry, the Beloved Country.) Some positive results come from…

“There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man” was said by Alan Paton. The slave labor of the 20th century in garment factories, butcher shops and mines: where the employer looks upon its workers as less than human, demonstrates man’s inhumanity to man. The merciless owner disregard employees’ human lives for their greed to maximize profit. They murdered workers by using low wages, overcrowded…