parents, teachers, peers, and our self-image. Stereotypes are a very good

example of this. Ideas about stereotypes are often activated spontaneously

and without awareness. One's self-image is often developed by the way in

which they think that they may be stereotyped or may subconsciously

stereotype others. Racial minorities, handicapped people, social class, and

gender are just a few of the people that are commonly stereotyped.

Cry, The Beloved Country is a novel that speaks out against racial

intolerance and its bitter effects.1 The main issue of the novel is racial

discrimination in South Africa. The author, Alan Paton, conveys very well

how he thinks Afrikaners came to perceive blacks as dangerous and to fear

them enough to want to establish a system of racial segregation. Paton

explains that some whites struggle with their own consciences over racial

The main character in Cry, The Beloved Country is Stephen Kumalo, a

humble village priest. In the beginning of the novel, he leaves to search for

his son Absalom, who is seemingly adrift in the white man's world of

In Book III, Kumalo returns to him hometown of Ndotenshi. He is

might be dangerous, they turn it over to the hired help, who quickly get burnt

Jarvis decides to help him rebuild his village and make it good again, that way

through in Johannesburg. Kumalo is overwhelmed with happiness when

visually shows how people can be stereotyped by referring to items such

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