A Comparison Of Cry The Beloved Country And Lincoln's Speech
The fight for equality threatens to end the ego of rich men, yet people still rise up against it. Alan Paton, the writer of Cry, the Beloved Country, and Abraham Lincoln, the great speaker of justice and our 16th president, both fought, in their own ways, for our rights. They fought their entire lives for our right to equality, and wrote beautiful works that are in our hearts and minds until this day. Because Paton's book and Lincoln's speech demonstrated their strong faith with the biblical references throughout their respective works, and each have both brought forth their parallel ideas to end discrimination through peace and unity. They fought for their generation, and passed their thoughts and words through their works that are still
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The biblical allusions such as, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each evokes His aid against the other" (Second Inaugural Addressed ) and “I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all" (Paton, 73). In the book Paton has expressed his opinion multiple times. Arthur, Jarvis' son was a well-recognized fighter for equality. He brought up a good point about how white men had twisted God's truth to help them gain more power, more money, and more land. He said, "We go so far as to credit Almighty God with having created black men to hew wood and draw water for white men" (Paton, 256). Lincoln had expressed almost the same exact opinion in his speech. "It may seem strange that men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged" (Second Inaugural Address). They have also both expressed that together under God their nations could be great. If everyone, colored or not, joined together in unity their respective countries can move forward and not look back. In America today, the people have realized that total unity and discrimination can never be reached, but if people were willing to try to go forward; the nation could without racism and sexism holding them back. In his speech Lincoln said, "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new
The biblical allusions such as, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each evokes His aid against the other" (Second Inaugural Addressed ) and “I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all" (Paton, 73). In the book Paton has expressed his opinion multiple times. Arthur, Jarvis' son was a well-recognized fighter for equality. He brought up a good point about how white men had twisted God's truth to help them gain more power, more money, and more land. He said, "We go so far as to credit Almighty God with having created black men to hew wood and draw water for white men" (Paton, 256). Lincoln had expressed almost the same exact opinion in his speech. "It may seem strange that men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged" (Second Inaugural Address). They have also both expressed that together under God their nations could be great. If everyone, colored or not, joined together in unity their respective countries can move forward and not look back. In America today, the people have realized that total unity and discrimination can never be reached, but if people were willing to try to go forward; the nation could without racism and sexism holding them back. In his speech Lincoln said, "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new