Main theme

In Paton’s Cry the beloved country his main theme seems to be the hardships and lack of fairness towards the natives. In the story the whites came in and took over leaving the natives homeless and jobless for awhile up on too recently in the story. I plan to describe three main parts that made me choose this theme.

          The first part is the harshness they are put through sometimes makes them turn on their own family. As when Kumalo was going to lie to keep his son out of jail and turned on his nephew and brother. But at the same time when your constantly looked down on or giving what’s left over your going to do what it takes to get by and keep your family safe. When your forced to move night after night your going to want to get your family and leave but kumalo had to save his son first no matter the cost. At the same time it’s not fair that they have to arrange the marriage in secret just so they can keep the baby in the family through wedlock.

          When they were talking about ways to separate the blacks and whites he said pass laws don’t work because they ended up putting people in jail and the jails would be over flowing with people so the white people aren’t happy either way. I mean when there off the streets their complaining about them being in jail but when there not in jail they complain about them being loose. At one point they even tried to justify that they weren’t for segregation but just wanted separate visiting hours for recreational centers and things it got to one point  where they wanted completely separate centers. Like I said before no matter what they are constantly complaining and never satisfied. They would go as far as to lie and say they just want separate buildings just so there is space enough for everyone why lie I mean if you want it segregated be open about it its just another hardship the natives faced because people would lie and say they were against it but in the end it just being another lie to keep them from getting in any more trouble or out of danger.

          When the people are forced to go out and steal because people don’t want to hire natives it ends up being they’re own fault someone broke in and stole their stuff. Now I’m not saying it’s right I’m just saying if they would give the natives jobs they wouldn’t have to go and become criminals I mean give them a chance on better education. Now yes it could lead to smarter criminals but at the same time it could lead to better doctors, cops, and teachers you got to give them a chance here people you never know what will happen for sure until you try it what if someone who was denied education had what it took to stop I don’t know world hunger or something.

          Those are my thoughts on patons main theme in his bookCry the beloved country. His main theme so far is the troubles and harshness that the natives face. From resorting to crime to having to move night after night this symbolizes so much hardship they may face in life even today the same thing occurs from time to time.