“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… entrenched through Acts such as the 1936 Native Trust and Land Act, which legally restricted the non-white population … stresses the unfairness of setting “aside one-tenth of the land for four-fifths of the people” (Paton 127). Thus, … of the black population. This is not only the case with land but also with wealth, which Paton makes evident through …
