The book "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton is a book about protest and disorder of both whites and blacks over the white segregation policy (apartheid). The book describes how understanding between whites and blacks can stop mutual terror and hostility, and bring reform and hope to a small tribe of Ndotcheni as well as to South Africa as a whole. The Bible and the Christianity are very strong in this book; besides, several …showed first 75 words of 455 total…

…showed last 75 words of 455 total…Jarvis is out so he breaks into the house with two friends. However, when Arthur Jarvis “heard a noise, and came down to investigate” Absalom fires blindly as he gets afraid. Absalom later says in court: "Then a white man came into the passage. I was frightened. I fired the revolver." Absalom's fright could be representing the fear and the blindness and the misunderstanding between whites and blacks: these are the reasons of racial hate.