It is not questionable that discrimination is guilty for the majority of hatred spread across the world. It is unbelievable how much one's opinion could change an entire country. Although it is easy to blame something that may seem to be superficial to some, it is apparent in Cry, the Beloved Country that inequality is oppressed through the roles and opinions of others. In this passage, Africa's culture, people, and landscape are negatively impacted by the unforgiving inequality expressed throughout the country. The beginning chapter is distinguished by the contrasting imagery, suggestive diction, and constructive parallel structure used by Alan Paton to demonstrate inequality's negative impact. Alan Paton significantly uses the first chapter to set the entire focus of the novel. His use of contrasting imagery puts an emphasize on the difference between the soils in Africa. He uses this to stress the fact that the culture needs …show more content…
This passage is made almost entirely of brief parallel structures and this definitely helps him get his point across of the simple issues Africa is facing. He feels he should not need to use complex sentences to get across such a simple issue. When Paton says “Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed./”It is not kept, or guarded, or cared for, it no longer keeps men, guards men, cares for men” he uses this to support his opinion on the fact that things are never going to change. He repeats himself over and over again to explain that discriminating cultures is something that will have destroyed man before it is even realized. Much like how they destroyed the land before realizing it. The parallel structure between these negative and positive connotations further explains how even the little things are being impacted by the inequality within the