1. Cry The Beloved Country
Theories and proof have been brought to surface about the evolution of the human being from related primates, but this type of physical evolution
took thousands of years. What about the evolution of a society from day to day? Evolution is learning and changing from a certain period of time
and one cannot simply move on with their lives and make the world a better place if they don't evolve from what they used to believe. The world is
changing in many ways every single day and individuals can't be stuck with a certain belief or one moment in time forever. Keeping an open mind,
learning to let go, realizing that things are constantly changing are some ways to evolve. In Alan Paton's, Cry the Beloved Country, character, Arthur
Jarvis, writes letters to express how he believes both European and South African societies should learn to evolve and move past their own beliefs to
understand each other's. Jarvis brings forth the idea that European societies have hypocritical and redundant thoughts about the way a stereotypical
African society should live and feel. Paton does this by...show more content...
In 1948â1949, European and South African societies had a clear difference in opinion based on old traditional values, religion, and race. Alan Paton's
theme in Cry, the Beloved Country is how European and African societies of this time period should evolve from the standâstill position they both
stand for. In Arthur Jarvis's letters he uses diction to describe the state of the South African society, pattern and repetition to emphasize the redundancy
of the acts that the societies continue to commit that proves the stalling of evolution. Literary devices like these give Jarvis's passages and Paton's work
as a whole a deeper understanding and comprehension due to different layers of analysis throughout the
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