Cry the Beloved Country

Cry the Beloved Country 1. The policy of racial segregation followed in South Africa from the late 1940’s into the early 1990’s was Apartheid. According to the Encarta dictionary, apartheid is the “rigid racial division between the governing white minority population and the non white majority population”. Apartheid classified people into three major racial groups, whites, Bantu (black Africans), and colored or people of mixed descents and institutionalized racial discrimination. The culture and the customs practiced …

…from the Reformatory breaks the longstanding tradition and sits in the black side of the Court. He also visibly helps Stephen Kumalo when he is about to collapse after hearing “This Court finds you guilty, Absalom Kumalo, of the murder of Arthur Trevlyan Jarvis”. (Paton pg. 201) The author’s different style brings surprising moments and interest to the reader. A mixture of symbolism, grief throughout the apartheid, and the change in old values to new.