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lisamonc 's review for:
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
A deeply thoughtful and poignant book. The writing is beautiful and definitely earns its place as a classic. The humanity it portrays and complexity of that humanity is vivid and intense. Alan Paton paints an incredibly detailed picture.
I couldn’t help but notice how most of the problems came from the colonialization and a departure from the land and the tribe. When the native people there lost their connection with the land (mostly because the white people took it away from them) they could not recover. I see the divine feminine deeply seeded in all of this.
I had some questions while reading the book about the white people “saving” the black people. It seemed unfair to paint them as the heroes when really they were the ones that caused the problems in the first place. But perhaps that was why Jarvis decided to give as much as he could; he saw the damage the colonialization and wounded the native people so he tried to make anything right that he could.
This was definitely a thought-provoking and heartbreaking read but there were moments of true human experience that resonated deeply with me.
I couldn’t help but notice how most of the problems came from the colonialization and a departure from the land and the tribe. When the native people there lost their connection with the land (mostly because the white people took it away from them) they could not recover. I see the divine feminine deeply seeded in all of this.
I had some questions while reading the book about the white people “saving” the black people. It seemed unfair to paint them as the heroes when really they were the ones that caused the problems in the first place. But perhaps that was why Jarvis decided to give as much as he could; he saw the damage the colonialization and wounded the native people so he tried to make anything right that he could.
This was definitely a thought-provoking and heartbreaking read but there were moments of true human experience that resonated deeply with me.