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Examples Of Racism In Cry The Beloved Country By Alan Paton

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Shalom is more than only peace, it is a peace that grows out of harmony and right relationships. The book "Cry The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton" is about a Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo going on a journey to Johannesburg and discovering devastating news about his family members, and beginning to see the racial injustice between black and white people in South Africa. This book demonstrates various examples of shalom being built and broken. Throughout the book, it shows how shalom is breaking, but towards the end of the book it shows that the shalom is getting healed. One of the main theme is discrimination, segregation and racial injustice and throughout the book, there are various examples of shalom breaking through racial injustice and discrimination. Before anything else, knowing about shalom is the key to understanding the book. In the article "Healing for a Broken World." by Monsma Steve, it talks about Shalom. It states "Shalom is not the peace one finds in a graveyard. Instead, it refers to a peace that grows out of harmony and right relationships." When mankind was created by God, he created them with perfect shalom. The first two mankind, Adam and Eve lived in a right relationship with each other and with God, sinless and peaceful. Although in Genesis 3, it reveals that shalom was broken when Adam and Eve joined the rebellion of Satan by eating a fruit from the tree God specifically told not to. They wanted to know good and evil like God, and couldn 't hold their

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