Extra Credit

Paton characterized the gender differently by describing the clothing of men and women. Kumalo was on a carriage and saw women in "strange assortments of European garments, some with blankets over their strange assortment, some with blankets over the semi-nudity of their primitive dress, though these were all women. Men travelled no longer in primitive dress."(p.43) The women still hold their customs, while the men are not. The effect of this difference is that women follow the old customs, and take care of the children, cooking, farming, and obey their husband; and the men are not following the old customs because they have to work in city. They are the man of the house, they have to earn money; no white men is going to hire them if they're in their primitive dress and dancing their traditional dance. I think the difference is fair because man is the leader of the family and they have to have a job to take care of the whole family; the women's job is to be a mom, and take care of the children and do other chores. Then there's different characterization of gender in Johannesburg. This gender's characterization is the antithesis of the the gender's characterization in the country. Paton describes gender differently by conveying to the reader that women in Johannesburg have jobs, too. But, the jobs are bad. Msimangu and Kumalo was going to Claremont to look for Gertrude and Msimangu tells Kumalo that "this is bad liquor here, made strong with all manner of things that our people have never used. And that is her work, she makes and sells it. I shall hide nothing from you, though it is painful for me. These women sleep with any man for their price."(p.53) Women going to city become a prostitute and they make and sell illegal liquor. Men become bad guys and stop working because they are having fun with girls and gambling. The effect of this is men become criminals instead of becoming good workers, who would send money home to their family; women on the other hand try to earn money, but they don't have a decent job, instead they have a sinful job, which are prostitute and making and selling liquor. The is difference is not fair, since the women have to work, and the men don't want to work. The women lost their chastity and men get their name on criminal record.

Coding Cry, Beloved Country

Passage:Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.




Key:
repetition
figurative language
characterization
allusion
3rd person point of view
odd diction
sentence structure

Gender roles

Paton creates gender roles in the novel by describing the South Africa's land and it's culture. "Stand shod upon it, for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men." Paton uses the word 'men' a lot in the quote, so he could show the reader that men are more important than women. Paton didn't mentions women a lot except the part when they are working in the valleys, "[d]own in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left......The men are away, the young men and the girls are away."(34) Women consider by Paton and South African society, are hardworking housewives. Women's jobs are to care for their family and to farm. Women are not consider important as men since men are strong and the leader of the family.The effect of the differences between the gender roles are that when the soil can't support the people anymore, people have to move to city. Women will have to stay back to do their chores and take care of the children; and the men have to go to city to make money.