3.17 Literary Analysis Cry, The Beloved Country By Alan Paton Directions:Below you will find several passages fromCry, The Beloved Country. Read each passage and answer the questions in full complete sentences to the best of your ability. The last part of this assignment will ask you to make a real-world connection to this novel. Read carefully. This assignment is worth 25 points. IMPORTANT PASSAGES BY THEME RACE/PREJUDICE: 1.[Kumalo] went out of the door, and she watched him through the little window, walking slowly to the door of the church. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute. (Pg. 40) What does the reader learn about the role of black women based on this passage?(3 points)
2.The white people are training more and more [black nurses]. It is strange how we move forward in some things, and stand still in others, and go backward in yet others. Yet in this matter of nurses we have a great many friends amongst the white people. There was a great outcry when it was decided to allow some of our young people to train as doctors at the European University of the Witwatersrand. But our friends stood firm, and they will train there until we have a place of our own. (Pg. 95) Based on this passage, what is Msimangu’s approach to racial issues in South Africa?(3 points)
