Cry The Beloved Country Barriers

People will always notice the physical characteristics of a person first. Throughout history people in power have discriminated against other people for their physical appearance. Africa sees racial injustices and knows how hard they hit. Racial barriers exist in Africa as they do in Alan Paton’s novel. The racial barriers hurt the people of Africa and touch every citizen’s life in some manner. The damaged people of Africa cannot protect their peers, for the racial barriers have disarmed them. Alan Paton uses tone to reveal the racial barriers in Africa, through his contemporary novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. Africa and her people grow weak and shrivel in the face of racial barriers. Discrimination against the natives prevents them from achieving great accomplishments; instead the view of the natives as a source of cheap labor prevails. The natives know they deserve more than what they receive and hae the willpower to do something about the issue at hand: “… the strike will not be limited to the mines… every black man, every black woman, will stop working… white people realize how dependent they are on the labour of the black people” (223). Paton writes to advise us of the unfair vantages many white people have over the natives, natives have a lesser chance to have a
Racial barriers in Africa cannot disintegrate without the help of its people. Racial barriers prevent the people of Africa from the ability to unite and protect one another. Racial barriers hurt the people of Africa, so they cannot rise to protect one another. Paton wrote the novel Cry, the Beloved Country to specifically inspire the people of Africa to break down racial barriers and to demonstrate that people of different race really in the end are both human. In Paton’s writings, he says if anything stands between people and potential happiness they should tackle whatever may block their path and shoot for their