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.

Cry,The Beloved Country characterization

In chapters 5 and 6 Paton introduces some female and male characters. When Paton introduces the female characters he calls them Ms. or Mrs. so and so. And if he described any physical appearance he would say they were African. But when he describes the male characters he says they are white or black men. He describes the women with more respect then when be describes the men.

Cry, The Beloved Country Tabs

I tab a portion in chapter two when the first dialogue shows up. I tabbed this because I found it interesting that Paton used - to indicate when someone is speaking instead of quotation marks. I have never seen a writer who uses this form of writing. This also makes me wonder if you would use a - when you quote his dialogue in a paper.

In chapter three I tabbed the section where Paton is describing Stephan's fear of traveling. I thought that this would later play apart in the story when he is actually traveling to Johannesburg. I have a feeling that this fear will cause some sort of problem in the future.

I tabbed the first part of chapter four because I saw that Paton repeated his description of the soil. I thought that it might be used as a symbol in the rest of the novel. I think Paton will use the soil to represent the people in the story who are suffering.

A little later in chapter four I tabbed where railway-lines and stations were repeated twice. I tabbed them because they stuck out to me. I don't remember Paton repeating anything else like that and it showed that he wanted to place emphasis on those two words.

English Hw post 3 - theme

One of the themes in "Lord of the Flies" is, Fear can not be physically changed or destroyed it must be mentally conquered. Some ways that Golding develops this theme is through the use of characters and plot. At one point in the story the boys are having an assembly and start talking about the beast. During this time Jack says, "You say they dream and cry out. Now they talk-not only the littluns, but my hunters sometimes-talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal" (85). This quote shows not only the little boys fear but also that Jack maybe worried that there really is something out there even though he would never admit it.

Later in the book Golding continues to develop this theme by the use of plot. In the first page of the chapter "Beast from Air", a dead man falls from the sky landing on the island. At first all the fear was in the boys heads but now they have what they believe is real evidence that there really is a beast. An interesting thing I noticed was that all the boys except for Simon see the beast at nighttime or when it's getting dark. When Simon actually see's what the beast is and tries to tell the boys he ends up dying. It is as if Golding didn't want the boys to find out the truth about the "Beast". The fear that the boys were experiencing was all in their heads. If the boys had taken the time and had the courage to look at the beast during the day they would have realized that the figure they thought was the beast they wouldn't have to be afraid. Having read further on I think even if the boys had figured out the the figure on the mountain wasn't a beast they most likely would have thought that the adults tried to rescue them but was killed by the real beast. So no matter how the boys saw the beast the fear would always be in their heads.