Comparing the Land To the Families

In Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton compares Kumalo to the land. He does this by showing us how much the people and miss him when he came back and what was happening. For example the children dying, "They die, my child, he said. Some of them are dying now" (270) This shows how when he left the other Umfundisi didn't take care of them there and how they land was horrible when he wasn't there. The parallel between Kumalo and  the land is that wherever Kumalo goes the place he just left turns bad, and nothing goes right and he is kinda a mess too. But when he gets back everything is getting better including the land.

Ashoka Blog

Lesley Ann Foster, is working for the help of the Women and girls that have fallen to domestic violence and abuse. She has created a system of counseling and made an organized support group.  She is also helping women to get job skills and back on their feet. 1997

Jackie Branfield is working to help the children that have been sexually abused. To do this she has made a teddy bear called the "boobi bear". The Boobi Bear is filled with counseling methods and ways to help express themselves. 2004

Lynne Brown is part of the Women Leadership. She is working for girls to improve the education. Her program teaches women technical skills and leadership development.  Her main goal is to link different groups of Women all across Africa. 1990

I think i will like to write about what Lynne Brown is doing. It goes along with the girl effect the Nike is currently doing. I think it will have a very good point and will have a strong voice that i could help speak.

Cry Journal 5 (names)

In Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country some of his characters don't have names. My first thought on why they don't have names is because he wants to keep the focus on the main characters. He wants the reader to know they are important but no so important that they get a name. I also think that some characters have names because its puts emphasis on their character or their personality. For example, the girl, Absalom wife and now Kumalo's daughter. I think Alan Paton calls her only "the girl" to emphasize that she is just a child, and should not be in the position that she is in, pregnant. I think this decision to call her "the girl" was a good decision, because it doesn't really giver her a big character and she isn't so it fits that roll but also because he  is letting us know that she is just a girl that needs help.

Cry Journal

The first and obvious reason why authors but books in their story is because they want to tell you it gonna be form a different perspective now. Another reason I think they do it is they want to tell another piece of the story with out combining it into one. When you make it a book it becomes a lot clearer and seems like a separate idea, so you don't think about them together. And at the end you can take both clear ideas and put them together for the ending of your story.

Oppression Site #2

This is another article about how women face oppression and as you can see it happense a lot. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3652833-gender-oppression
The women face oppression from the men in their lives. These men can be their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sometimes even the sons. I would like to say in the beginning to the men. “Yes, we are stronger but this strength is a gift from god. However, god gave this strength to men to protect women and not to abuse them.” Every woman should be shown respect and given their dignity. This means not only your wife, sister, mother, and daughter, but the respect must be to each woman you know and each woman you don't know.
Oppression comes in many forms in a woman's life. It may be in the form of a wife that is not allowed to have friends. Or when women are exploited and face oppression in the workplace by giving women the worst work, with no job security and low wages, the bosses create a super- cheap workforce, which they can hire and fire at will. Or it may be in the form of a husband, father, or boyfriend that does not allow the woman to have a cell phone, inter net chatting, or in the worst scenario it may be in the form of abuse from a man. This abuse may come in many forms of itself. A man may lose control of his emotions and hit the woman, which does nothing but hurt her physically. Or he may even choose to rape her to gain emotional control over her. Oppression comes in many forms, and none of them are good for the women that experience them. Yes, there are laws to protect women from such abuse. However, when a woman has been oppressed for so long, she may see herself with no value and that nobody would care that she was being hurt.
Oppression comes from a lack of trust and maybe even jealousy. This lack of trust and jealousy leads to fights and more oppression for the woman. Fights in front of children and in front of others. The woman loses always in this matter, because the man is stronger. When the fights are in front of the children this effects them and enforces these children to not respect the woman. When these fights occur in front of others, others will also see this woman at fault and give her no value in life.

Oppression Site #1

I found this website from http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/conference/?scp=3&sq=Oppression&st=cse it Came from the article The Choice, about women having no where to go and being abused and having no help.
Q.
You made the point when we met that Bryn Mawr saw a clear role for itself, going forward, in preparing students to respond to the abuses and violence that many women endure not just here in the United States but abroad. What are some ways that a women’s college like Bryn Mawr can execute that mission?

A.

In our conversation we talked about how disturbing it is that in the 21st century women continue to suffer from systemic oppression and brutalization across the globe. Female fetuses
are aborted simply for being female. Little girls are dying from lack of nutrition and medical care simply for being female. Adolescent girls and young women are forced into sexual slavery, subjected to genital mutilation and murdered to save the family ‘honor.’ In some countries, women die in childbirth at rates that rival those in the middle ages. All this in the 21st century!
As a college that has been educating and empowering women for 125 years, Bryn Mawr can do something about this. We have the interest and concern, we have the educational programs and we have the experience in dealing with diversity that a world-wide effort to combat the continuing oppression of women needs. And we are already involved.
Well before the term “service learning” even existed, Bryn Mawr made civic engagement a central part of our students’ experience. We are focused on making sure every student’s time at Bryn Mawr has some international component to it. And our students come from extraordinarily diverse backgrounds.
I see Bryn Mawr using its prominence and prestige to convene conferences like “Heritage and Hope”, where educators, advocates and NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] can gather to share knowledge and forge collaborations.
Through the courses we offer, the internships we fund and the campus events we sponsor, I want to raise our students’ consciousness on these issues so that whether they become doctors, lawyers, chemists, artists, or C.E.O.’s, they can be agents of change in addressing this worldwide challenge of women’s oppression.

Cry Journal 3

In Cry, The Beloved Country I feel the image of women  being prostitutes and selling illicit liquor is mentioned a lot, along with the phrases of  "All roads lead to Johannesburg" and the concept of the son on how he keeps moving.
I think Alan Paton keeps bring up the image of the women because he wants to tell us that things really are not good there. Yes, Stephen brother is doing good, and some people are. But a lot of the people are not healthy there. They do not live healthy life styles, they do bad things to themselves, and they are involved in the wrong events. Also a lot of people are selling illegal liquor.
Alan Paton keeps repeating the phrase "All road go to Johannesburg" because I think he wants to say that it hold so many different things for every one, meaning that everyone has there own road and mostly everything you could find in Johannesburg and that's why everyone wants to go there or ends up going there.
Every place that Stephen goes to look for his son he has already moved. And I think Alan Paton is doing this because he wants to show that both of them don't give up hope. They really want to find him and when you want something as bad as that you will go to the farthest cliff, the top of the mountain to get that goal.