Cry, the Beloved Country chapters 12-23 HELP 69 points Chapters 12-17
Understanding Cultural and Historical Context (10 points)
Absalom may have experienced economic, social, and cultural discrimination in Johannesburg. Do you think this happened? If so, how could these injustices have influenced his behavior and choices? If not, what do you think led to his actions?

Chapters 18-23
Fathers and Sons (10 points each)
1. Arthur’s views of South Africa are quite different from his father’s. James truly sees this as he reads Arthur’s writings. How do you think this will affect James? Do you think he will become more understanding and adopt Arthur’s hopes for South Africa? Or will he grow angrier and prejudiced against others because of Arthur’s murder?

2. Father/son relationships is a constant theme throughout the novel. Compare and contrast the father/son relationship between James and Arthur and Stephen and Absalom. How could these relationships be symbolic for bigger ideas?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification