Alan Paton

By: Afton, Jacob, Cassie, and Robby

  social and political policy of racial segregation

 discrimination enforced by National Party government in South Africa from

1948 to 1994.

 Came about because of the need to separate racial groups to implement white
supremacy over everything.

 Werner Eiselen was the mastermind behind the idea to dominate with Whites.

 This ideology spread around the world so that it grew more popular
throughout the world with the idea of superiority over a whole race.

 In some countries throughout the world Apartheid still exists but because of
the immense amounts of money spent to control the racial groups the idea
was given up on early in the 1970’s for most of the countries who supported it.
 Birthplace

 Born-January 11, 1903 

 Died-April 12, 1988

 Place of birth-Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South

Africa
 Son of a minor civil servant
 Writing “Cry, The Beloved Country”
 "Paton attempts to imbue his characters with a humanity not expected of them.”

 The novel was built on parallel life stories, letters, speeches, news and records in
legal proceedings, and mixed fictional and real-life characters

 He started writing the novel in Trondheim, Norway in September of 1946 and

finished it in San Francisco on Christmas Eve of that same year.

 Cry, the Beloved Country, written by Alan Paton, is a story of hope, forgiveness,
and suffering

 People spend their whole lives trying to escape the suffering in this world, but it is
an impossible task to achieve.

 "For [the Lord] knew that there is no life without suffering" (261).

 This observation, however unsettling, is commonly found to be true.

 This book’s setting is in a rural village of Ixopo, and in the city of Johannesburg in
South America