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.