Personal Reading Study :: English Literature

Personal Reading StudyPersonal Reading Study Cry Freedom by John BrileyQ Choose a novel in which a relationship between two differentcharacters is developed. Show how the developing relationship between Steve Biko and DonaldWoods explores the theme of racism and how the novel portrays theeffects of racism in South African society. In your answer you must refer closely to the text and to the themesexplored, characterisation and Key incidents.And towards that day, when the isolation that creates hostility becomes the closeness that permits friendship, allow us join in the songof South Africa As the above quotation suggests Cry Freedom by John Briley, is afascinating consume of the real life relationship between Donald Woodsand Steve Biko. The author employs a variety of literary techniquesto demonstrate how two very different men with different lifestylesbecome close, and how their relationship develops under complexcircumstances. In my essay I will show how the relationship betwe enSteve Biko and Donald Woods develops and I will in addition explore theportrayal of the theme of racism and the effects it has on the societyin which it exists. Briley portrays this through hischaracterisation, the themes explored and the key incidents throughoutthe novel.John Briley has successfully engaged my recreate in the developingrelationship between the two protagonists. Before their firstmeeting I believe that Donald Woods was not very sure of what hethought of blacks in South Africa and how much freedom they should beallowed to have. It seems to me that Donald Woods, as a white liberaland an editor contradicted himself many times. An example of this is,He did not believe blacks should be given the full right to vote.But a few sentences later there is a quotation saying,When he caught the Government violating those radical ethical premises,he struck at them with a pen so sharp and so precise that his paperwas quoted from one end of South Africa to the other.I believe t hat in these quotations Woods contradicts himself as hebelieves blacks should not be given the full right to vote yet when hecaught the Government violating those fundamental ethical premises hewould argue with them. It seems to me that Woods is not too sure whathe believes is acceptable for blacks, and how far they should beallowed to go in the nicety system. Furthermore, before their first meeting Woods did not approve ofBikos black consciousness principles. He believed that Bikosprinciples were all about black injustice and that he did not wanteverything to be fair in South Africa but instead to be the way the