Personal Reading Study :: English Literature

Personal version StudyPersonal Reading Study Cry Freedom by John BrileyQ Choose a novel in which a descent mingled with two oppositecharacters is developed. Show how the developing descent between Steve Biko and Donaldwoodland explores the theme of racism and how the novel portrays theeffects of racism in second African society. In your answer you must refer nigh to the text and to the themesexplored, characterisation and Key incidents.And towards that day, when the isolation that creates hostility becomes the closeness that permits friendship, permit us join in the songof South Africa As the in a higher place quotation suggests Cry Freedom by John Briley, is a enrapturing study of the real life relationship between Donald woodlandand Steve Biko. The precedent employs a variety of literary techniquesto demonstrate how two very different men with disparate lifestylesbecome close, and how their relationship develops under complexcircumstances. In my essay I will show how th e relationship betweenSteve Biko and Donald forest develops and I will also explore theportrayal of the theme of racism and the effects it has on the societyin which it exists. Briley portrays this through hischaracterisation, the themes explored and the key incidents throughoutthe novel.John Briley has successfully engaged my interest in the developingrelationship between the two protagonists. Before their firstmeeting I rely that Donald Woods was non very sure of what hethought of blacks in South Africa and how much freedom they should beallowed to have. It seems to me that Donald Woods, as a blank liberaland an editor contradicted himself many times. An example of this is,He did not deal blacks should be given the full right to vote.But a a couple of(prenominal) sentences later there is a quotation saying,When he caught the Government violating those fundamental ethical premises,he struck at them with a pen so sharp and so precise that his paperwas quoted from one end of S outh Africa to the other.I believe that in these quotations Woods contradicts himself as hebelieves blacks should not be given the full right to vote yet when hecaught the Government violating those basic ethical premises hewould argue with them. It seems to me that Woods is not too sure whathe believes is acceptable for blacks, and how far they should beallowed to go in the justice system. Furthermore, before their first meeting Woods did not approve ofBikos black consciousness principles. He believed that Bikosprinciples were all about black prejudice and that he did not fatalityeverything to be fair in South Africa but instead to be the way the