Monday, 4/16: Reading

* Pray

* Review
- This week block (week 36): THE (Assigned tomorrow); to ch. 20 in Cry for Mon.
- Next week block (week 37): Perrine's; to ch. 30 for Mon.
- Week 38 block: Perrine's; finish Cry this week
- Week 39 block: CWP due
- Week 40 Review
- Week 41 Final Exam on Cry...

* Elements to Note
Ch. 1: Contrast, Symbol, Theme, Allusion in the land
Ch. 2: Characterization
Ch. 3: Exposition (learning of the city)
Ch. 4: Poetic Description (opening paragraphs)
Ch. 5: Theme: Race
Ch. 6: Theme: Forgiveness; city
Ch. 7: Theme: John Kumalo, race; Msimangu: "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating" (71).
Ch. 8: Narrative perspective; notice how the third-person perspective becomes interpretive, almost intrusive, in its foreboding omniscience ("Have no doubt it is fear in their eyes..."(77)).
Ch. 9: Vignette: This is a sketch of life that does not directly relate to the main character's search for his son. This is a technique Paton picked up from another writer with social concerns, John Steinbeck.
Ch. 10: Theme: Loss ("from every house something was gone" (93)), Despair (bottom of 99), forgiveness (101).

HW: Read through ch. 12