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This 4 page paper provides a basic summary of this story as well as providing insight into the complexities of apartheid. Furthermore, this paper serves as a review which highlights the themes and challenges of the author as well as personal interpretations, observances, and reactions. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Reverend Stephen Kumalo, who is taking a trip to Johannesburg in order to visit his son and hi sister. Both had left the countryside in order to seek better
jobs and thus, better lives for themselves. But what comes to pass is that neither his sister nor his son have been successful in acquiring better lives for themselves.
The heartbroken Reverend finds his sister living as a prostitute and finds his son has been arrested for killing a white man.
The real crux of the story is in terms of the country itself, and the story that transpires between these characters is meant to highlight the social
and political problems that plagued South African in the latter part of the 20th century. In this book, Paton reveals a South Africa that is so physically beautiful and
this is starkly contrasted by the hate that has become such a divisive force. The blacks, who feel they have been disenfranchised are in a rage against whites and
use every possible opportunity to seek revenge against them. The whites are simply at a loss as to what to do.
And so, through the words of Alan Paton the reader is transported into the world of apartheid, and the grim realities that accompanied the system of inequality. What
had been a way of life for so long was suddenly being called into question and being ripped apart from the inside out. The blacks were angry and sought
revenge. The whites feared the blacks but more importantly feared their minority status. What was apparent disregard for basic human rights by the rest of the world was
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