Land Paralleling Family- Cry,...

Looking through out the book I see that the land is paralleling Kumalos family. It is doing so by represtenting how Kumalos family is falling apart and broken how nothing is able to keep them together. Kumalo went to Johannesburg to bring back his sister and her son and his own son. The only people he could bring back are the ones he's not really related to, his grandson and his daughter-in-law. The soil represents this with this qoute from the noval, "They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil cannot keep them any more".

Ashoks Fellows

Marie-Noelle Besancon is revolutionizing long-term health care for those with mental illnesses. By providing low affordable health care and homes they can live in so they live more like regular people.

Jean-Claude Decalonne is helping to provide more adequate teaching to youths who live in at-risk areas. By getting parents teachers and school boards more involved in teaching using more effective and different styles of teaching.

Caroline Casey is helping Irish people adapt their businesses to serve and employ people with disabilities. By providing them ways to change things so they better suit the disabled.

Cry, Nameless Characters

In chapter 30, Paton revisits a character that was first introduced to us right before Kumalo left for Johannesburg. He never gives this man a name, we can only identify him by the conversation he has with Kumalo. I believe Paton does this to emphasis the conversation and the subject at which the two men are talking about. They talk about how a girl disappeared in Johannesburg and her family was looking for her. The nameless characters in the novel help put emphasis on what the reprsent and stand for in the story.

Cry, Different sections, why

The author of Cry the Beloved Country, chose to break his book up into different sections so he could change the point of view in his story. By changing the point of view Paton gave us a different perspective on the story. He gave us the view of the dad whose kid killed a man and the veiw of the dad whose son was killed. This gave us diferent meaning to the story, at first we were sad for the father and his son but now I am very upset for the family of the deceased man. the switching of the point of veiw gives you a more whole story.

Oppression Article Links

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/16-years-after-the-genocide-rwanda-continues-forward/?scp=5&sq=Oppression%20in%20Rwanda&st=cse


http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/this-year-in-kigali-a-rwandan-seder/?scp=3&sq=Oppression%20in%20Rwanda&st=cse

Cry, The Beloved Country-repeating lines

• People go to Johannesburg and they don't come back
• Hills, Mountains
• You can get lost in the streets
• Soil
• Crops, Broken Tribes
• All roads lead to Johannesburg
• Shanty Town is up overnight

Paton uses the symbol soil, which shows up repeatedly, to smbolize the black people that are suffering. He says the soil is sick and it doesn't produce crops and descirbes it using blood as a simile.

Paton repeats the line, All roads lead to Johannesburg, to show how everything in South Africa revoles, or is connected through this one town. He also uses the phrase All the buses lead to Johannesburg to show how everything is connected back to that one place.

One line that was used repeatedly was, Shanty Town is up overnight. I think Paton repeats this line so that we realize what happened in such a short amount of time. These people who weren't having anything done for them built their own makeshift houses to show the white people who weren't helping them that they would not be ignored.