Cry The Beloved Country

In his elegy Killing Time, Armitage has been influenced by the Columbine School Shooting in 1999. He uses metaphors to replace any reference to the gun industry with mentions of flowers. This creative use of metaphors makes the “red roses strewn among unsuspecting pupils” seem innocent at first. Upon closer inspection, the sadness and tragedy that the poem describes allows readers to empathise more strongly for everyone affected. Aside from evoking emotion, Armitage uses Killing Time to question whether it is “something in the mind that grows… like a seed” to cause such devastation. This use of simile is effective in questioning the society that allows such misfortunes to occur. In another one of his poems Out of the Blue, which was written about 9/11, Armitage recalls the event from a victim’s perspective. Armitage writes, “I am waving, waving./ Small in the clouds, but waving, waving.” This use of first person, repetition and couplet rhyming engages readers and emphasises the anxiety that the narrator is feeling. This ability to engage his readers, allows Armitage’s poems to have such a significant

Along in with the author’s use of metaphors is the frequent use of imagery. In this reading, it is simple to envision the scenes as the different scenarios are explained and the audience can easily picture Staples in the places he is describing and also the people he comes across. Perhaps the most powerful and memorable imagery is provided in the author’s description of people’s different reactions and faces when they come into contact with him. Actions speak volumes and an immediate change of facial expression is possibly one of the

Many times during this novel, a character notices that their hands, bodies, or even minds were acting without their control. The reader begins to understand the amount of apathy there is towards the concept of death, and how little the people in this novel care about others, themselves, or conclusively anything.

It has been said that the land is itself another character in Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. What role does the landscape play in the novel? What does the valley surrounding Ndotsheni represent?

This book is filled with many emotions. It allows you to brainstorm on the next events of the story. I chose this book because the cover gave an image that was curious, which I was anxious to finds lots about. The predictions from the book gave me ideas as I read. During the story, I made several images in my mind to understand it closely. In my view, this story was adventurous. This book will have you wondering what will happen next!

There are various ways to depict a certain theme, a common way being transmitted through the tone. Two separate poems illustrate the same theme, yet do it through their different respective tones. The villanelles, Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” and Martha Collins “The Story We Know” both convey a theme of love and loss; However, Bishop displays an indifferent, self-loathing tone, while Collins portrays a familiar, accepting tone. In “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, her use of literary elements help her achieve an attempted detached, nonchalant tone that veils confused internal emotions equating to loss.

The short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is told from the perspective of a first-person narrator. Throughout the story, the narrator is self-absorbed in his own thoughts and emotions and fails in his willingness to overlook personal insecurities in order to accommodate others’ discomfort, i.e. predominantly his wife and the blind man. In general, the story lacks figurative language and is told in short, direct sentences. This basic structure leaves a lot for the reader to interpret on his or her own. I focused on two paragraphs within Raymond Carver’s short story. The first section is the fifth paragraph in the story beginning with “But instead of dying...” and concluding with “all I wanted to.” To make it less complicated throughout my paper, I will refer to this segment as ‘Section 1.’ The second section I used is the seventh paragraph in the short story, which begins with “Beulah had gone to work...” and ends with “Pathetic.” I will refer to this segment as ‘Section 2.’ Both of these paragraphs hold significance both in themselves alone as well as when applied together.

This gives the reader and the story a very depressing atmosphere. These can create anxiety and fear in the reader which leads to the story’s theme of fear and madness as

One stylistic device Paton employs in his novel is graphic imagery; this device is one of great effect. Through the use of this device, it is evident that many characters are dedicated and relentless in what they

Strong emotions, such as love, are embedded into the human psyche. Moreover, these intense feelings dictate the actions one takes. Both William Faulkner and Andre Dubus utilize this theme in their works. Driven by hope, Matt from “Killings” by Dubus and Emily from “A Rose for Emily” by Faulkner ultimately end up murdering out of love. Similarly, each stories’ layout is story order, setting, and the character’s rationale (EA pink). The authors tug at the reader’s own reasoning’s in order to grant empathy towards their fictional characters.

Courage Courage Nelson Mandela once said, “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” (Brainy Quote). Courage allows people to stand up and cause change. Alan Paton has several characters that exemplify courage in “Cry, the Beloved Country”.

These include focussing on main themes such as the cruelty of man and friendship amidst suffering, as previously discussed. Focussing on certain themes, makes people interested in what life was like at the time. The author also used several techniques, such as dramatic irony and symbols, through the book to catch people attention. The essay topic states "Is it the way this novel is written that holds our attention as much as what it is about.". The story line itself is interesting, however if the author didn't use these themes or techniques, the book would not have been as big as a success. Therefor, it is the storyline that holds our attention, while the way it is written is what catches our

Sentimental novel: sympathy, major things happen in novel because of the amount of emotional response, designed to directly address you and make you apart of this scene and make you as the reader feel as the characters do, use of sympathy and feeling to point out moments that are important to characters and get you to engage with the characters. (Harriet Beecher Stowe Pg.806, uncle tom’s cabin based on emotion and capacity) douglass narrates these events in an objective

“Us Vs. Them” Two different tales can have the same journey, but end up with a different outcome. In one story, Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, a black minister named Stephen Kumalo is sent a missive, calling him to Johannesburg because his sister has become affiliated with an illness. He is naive and a novice, as it is his first time there.

Edgar Allan Poe, a prominent poet and writer in the 1800s, is known for his unique narration style. Through sentence structure and diction Poe creates a sensory reaction in his readers; for example, in “The Tell-Tale Heart” the readers feel the panic of the narrator as the sentences get shorter and choppier. Poe’s methods of influencing the reader’s emotions are not just limited to these practices. In his stories of mystery and macabre Edgar Allan Poe has developed many unique characters with definitive traits who navigate their way through the author’s intriguing plots and storylines. These writing methods are applied to Edgar Allan Poe’s mystery story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in which the author establishes the story through a peripheral narrator, maintains the characterization of his protagonist, and utilizes diction unique to each aspect of the story. Poe’s decisions create a mysterious suspense for the reader as the story unfolds.