Cry, The Beloved Country

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to have to give up there need for superiority. Many times in the novel Paton showed there was a problem without even saying it. One of the major examples of that would be when he gave the scene of people asking "Have you a room to let?" and the response would always be "no I have no room to let"(85). Paton dosent outright say that its horrible that there is not even enough housing for the natives and they have to cram together in shared houses with no privicy at all. He just tells us the story and the reader recognize that there is a problem. Paton offten leves it up to the reader to figure out the social injustices of South Africa. When Kumalo was talking about his son Absolam he said "he is in prison for the most terrible deed a man can do, He killed a white man" (144). Here Paton shows, again, how whites were considered to be superior to blacks. It could have been said the worst thing to do is kill a man, but in South Africa’s society it was not the ...

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he helped the natives by given milk to the children. Paton added these characters to show what a person can do to break the gaps between natives a whites. The biggest problem in South Africa was the education level of the natives. As Arthur wrote how "it’s not permissible to keep men unskilled for the sake of unskilled workers" (178). It is so apparent that all the problems in South Africa can be traced back to the lack of education for the natives. If the natives were given the opportunity to go to school many would have better jobs. Which would mean that they would have more money to support their families and they would have a place to live. Not only would education lessen ...

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