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.
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