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Cry The Beloved Country

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One article of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” that was violated in the novel Cry, the Beloved Country is article seventeen part two. Article seventeen part two states “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property” (“Universal Declaration of Human Rights”). However, in this novel native south Africans are being deprived of land. This becomes evident to the audience through Arthur Jarvis's last note where he states the following “we set aside one-tenth of the land for four-fifths of the people”(Paton,179). This violates article seventeen part two of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” because native south Africans are being arbitrarily deprived of their land. This is a form of dehumanization because native south
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