8. MAKE A REAL-WORLD CONNECTION
Choose ONE of the questions listed below to answer. Each question deals with one of the themes from Cry, The Beloved Country. Make sure your response is detailed and in complete sentences.
a. Does racism or prejudice impact modern day society? Explain your answer and provide details to support your answer.
b. Does hypocrisy or bias in the church impact modern day society? Explain your answer and provide details to support your answer.
c. With all the freedoms we enjoy in our modern day society, is it possible to still feel trapped? Have you ever seen someone trapped by their environment or experienced being trapped in your environment? Describe what you witnessed and how it affected you?
d. Do imbalances in power and equality impact our modern day society? Explain your answer and provide details to support your answer.

answer to d

there are many examples of how imbalances in power and equality impact our modern day society. one example that i thought of is the difference between the wealthy population of our country v. the other 99% of people. the 1% is much more privileged and admired in ways that effect not only how the rest of us are treated but our economy as well. there are many other examples such as differences in race. in the u.s. there are drastic differences in power and equality between races. this includes the proven idea of white privilege in our modern day society. one of the most prevalent races to be discriminated against would be the black or african american

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.