Cry The Beloved Country Research Paper

Racism can cause many problems, in some cases death. In the book “Cry The Beloved Country” Absalom was imprisoned for killing a white man. In this book by Alan Paton all the crimes that came up were blamed on the black people of that area. Sometimes racism can be stronger than the knowledge that all races are still human and that all should be treated equally.
The white people did not see the black people as good, but as bad and because of this would take advantage of the blacks. Blacks were able to do as all other people, they had to follow unjust laws, but were still not trusted by the white people as much as they trusted their own race. For example, mistrust is demonstrated early in the novel when one of the characters in the book “talked