Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Code - Cry, the Beloved Country

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:
  -Bold with color (little time = yellow; whether = red) > Repetition
  -Blue Text > Allusion
  -Pink Text > Imagery
  -Bright Blue Text > Foreshadowing
  -Green Text > Metaphor
  -Purple Text & Underlined > P.O.V. (3rd Person)
  -Underline> Style (He also used one short sentence and many long sentences.)

Monday, March 5, 2012

Journal #4

Patron develops Gender roles in Cry, the Beloved Country by having the men be the breadwinners and women be housewives and caretakers of the men. Women are looked down upon and are useless save for raising a child or cleaning. Men are required to be intelligent and run the government, take care of the women and take care of their families. Due to these differences it is very difficult for women to get jobs and when they do they aren't ideal. For example, Stephan's sister took her child and went looking for her husband and ended up a prostitute who also makes hard liquor to support herself and her son. On the other hand, Stephan's brother went to the same town and ended up a high ranking politician.