Literary+Elements



In this book, Paton uses a plethora of symbolism and literary techniques. This book actually reminds me of the book __Things Fall Apart__ because they are both of the African nature.

__Chapter 1__ Another sentence that I liked from chapter 1 was when Paton wrote "The great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh. The lightening flashes over them, the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth."  I really like this sentence because to me it's saying that when it rained, it washed away the red soil, which    **__ seymore __**  said symbolizes the blood of Jesus Christ. When Paton says that the streams came to life, to me it symbolizes that when it was raining, the water in the stream was trembling when the rain poured into it. This is just how I am seeing things in my mind.
 * __Ra Shauna Johnson- __** In chapter 1, Paton uses a lot of different show-and-not-tells. The one that I like the most is when he talked about how the soil was like blood from the veins when it rained.
 * __carrie seymour__** - Chapter 1: I agree with Johnson above me and I too acknowledge that he talked of this matter. The red water is basically symbolistic to be the blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the land is considered a holy land. I also think the thunderstorm symbolizes God's ability to create life seeing as how the rain filled the streams with water that they so deparately needed.
 * __Brian Graves__**- <span style="COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #0c9aac">Chapter 1: I disagree, I think the author is not using this phrase as a symbol of religion. I believe he is showing the segregation of Africa at the time this book was written.
 * __ra shauna johnson__**-

__Chapter 2__

<span style="COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #38c110">This sentence is sayin that when the wife walked upon the floor, she walked as if she were going to break the floor.
 * __ra shauna johnson__**<span style="COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #7eae0a">-"She walked delicately as though her feet might do harm in so great a house..."

I also think that this sentence is showing how Kumalo is held in high regards and a higher stature in his village __Chapter 3__
 * __Brian Graves__** : <span style="COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #1251af">I agree with Johnson, although I feel like she is walking delicately because the girl is not used to such nice things in a house.

<span style="COLOR: #2eb836; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f12222">In these few sentences, im guessing that the wife of Mpanza had a son and he got on the wrong bus and someone killed him because he was somewhere where there was danger or he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. __**ra shauna johnson**__<span style="COLOR: #e52acd; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #0c2a64">-“The small toy train climbs up on its narrow gauge from the Umzimkulu Valley into the hills. It climbs up to the Carisbrook, and when it stops there, you may get out for a moment and look down on the great valley from which you have come.”
 * __<span style="COLOR: #ea5e2e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #13b999">ra shauna johnson __** -"....When Mpanza was dying, saw her son Mcheal dying in the street. Twelve years and moved by the excitement, he stepped out into danger, but she was hesitant and stayed at the curb. And under her eyes the great lorry crushed the life out of her son."

<span style="COLOR: #f17e7e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6065e1">This sentence is using show-and-not –tell. When it says that was a toy train, it really wasn’t a toy train; it was just a small train that people traveled on to get where they needed to go. --This sentence is interesting to me because it shows how Kumalo thinks he is an important person in his village, but he realizes that he is actually just an old man, just as any other in the city so he had lied to make himself seem important.
 * __Brian Graves__: <span style="COLOR: #ed5d1d; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e7f466">" **<span style="COLOR: #ed5d1d; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e7f466">Already the knees are weak of the man who a moment since had shown his little vanity, told his little lie, before these respectful people."

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