Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage Part Two Background formation ENTER W E
Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E Part Two ENTER
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Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E I. Author II. His Works III. Apartheid Background Information
Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage I. Author Alan Paton(1903-1988) i do not like to mention it But there is a voice i cannot silence Paton Paton, craggy old liberal, hater of and hated by apartheid loved and unloved by the anc famous for Cry, the Beloved Country. W E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E Alan Paton (1903-1988) “I do not like to mention it But there is a voice I cannot silence.” —Paton Paton, craggy old liberal, hater of and hated by apartheid, loved and unloved by the ANC, famous for Cry, the Beloved Country. I. Author To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage I. Author Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg South Africa. He started his career by teaching at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country(1948)made him one of South Africas best known writers, and by the time he died it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals he helped to found the south African Liberal party and became its president W E The end of author
Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He started his career by teaching at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg, had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) made him one of South Africa’s best known writers, and by the time he died, it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals, he helped to found the South African Liberal Party and became its president. I. Author The end of Author
Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage II. His Work Cry, the Beloved Country e nI BELovo COUNTRY Perhaps the most famous novel to come out of South Africa, Patons 1948 work brought to the notice of the world the dilemmas of ordinary South Africans living under an oppressive system, one which threatened to destroy their very humanity Alan Paton Informed by Paton's Christian and liberal beliefs, the novel tells of a rural Zulu parsons heart-breaking search for his son who has been drawn into the criminal underworld of the city. Cry, the Beloved Country has sold millions of copies around the world W E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E II. His Works Cry, the Beloved Country Perhaps the most famous novel to come out of South Africa, Paton’s 1948 work brought to the notice of the world the dilemmas of ordinary South Africans living under an oppressive system, one which threatened to destroy their very humanity. Informed by Paton’s Christian and liberal beliefs, the novel tells of a rural Zulu parson’s heart-breaking search for his son, who has been drawn into the criminal underworld of the city. Cry, the Beloved Country has sold millions of copies around the world. To be continued on the next page