Cry, the Beloved Country
"But the light will come there also. For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing." ~Alan Paton
Alan Paton was born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, South Africa. He taught school for three years in Ixopo. He was made principal of the Depkloof Reformatory for delinquent boys in 1935. He was the constructor of one of the most famous novels of all time, Cry, the Beloved Country. Now whoever you might be we would like you to stop think about the title of this book. What is the first thing this novel is stating to us? Why, would Alan Paton call this book such a mournful title?
Race was never an issue for Paton. He explains this to us, through fictional characters, how race is a large contributor to many South African's unhappiness during the 1940s. Alan Paton wrote the book right before the Apartheid in South Africa. Many people were wondering how he foreshadowed the Apartheid so well.
This website is designed so that you can understand this book and the things that it is trying to tell South Africa, or even better the society of the world. There are three different topics that we (Addison Beck, Travis Smith, and Tommy Smith) have been choose to discuss. Please enter the world of Alan Paton's in a different view and understanding.
If you have not read the book Cry, the Beloved Country we would personally invite you to pick up this book - it will truly change your view on life, as it has to many people before you.
Alan Paton was born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, South Africa. He taught school for three years in Ixopo. He was made principal of the Depkloof Reformatory for delinquent boys in 1935. He was the constructor of one of the most famous novels of all time, Cry, the Beloved Country. Now whoever you might be we would like you to stop think about the title of this book. What is the first thing this novel is stating to us? Why, would Alan Paton call this book such a mournful title?
Race was never an issue for Paton. He explains this to us, through fictional characters, how race is a large contributor to many South African's unhappiness during the 1940s. Alan Paton wrote the book right before the Apartheid in South Africa. Many people were wondering how he foreshadowed the Apartheid so well.
This website is designed so that you can understand this book and the things that it is trying to tell South Africa, or even better the society of the world. There are three different topics that we (Addison Beck, Travis Smith, and Tommy Smith) have been choose to discuss. Please enter the world of Alan Paton's in a different view and understanding.
If you have not read the book Cry, the Beloved Country we would personally invite you to pick up this book - it will truly change your view on life, as it has to many people before you.