Choose one issue and prepare to participate in a panel discussion before the class. You may have as many stickies and notes as you wish. Be prepared to make interesting assertions.
John Kumalo says the problem is economic inequality while Msimangu tags the broken moral and social framework. Where does Alan Paton go with this?
The Hero's journey. Kumalo and Jarvis.
Christianity embraced by most of the native characters ahas not succeeded
in replacing the tribal system. Why not?
In Book III, Paton develops solutions to the oppression and suffering of
Black South Africans. What are the limitations of this approach?
A white man's dog, that is what they called him and his kind. Well, that
was the way his life had been lived, that was the way he would die. P.269
How does gender shape the effects of racial segregation and poverty (rural
and urban in the novel?
The relationship between fear and hope (Abraham Lincoln, Msimangu, Arthur
Jarvis, Enzenzele)
The role of law and its relationship to justice in the story strand involving
Absalom.