Passage:
Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.
 KEY:
Repetition
Characterizaition
Imagery
Alliteration
Allusion

In the book "Cry, Our Beloved Country" the author, Alan Paton, makes several comments than are surprisingly sexist. They are subtle, however, because of the typical sexist attitude that binds modern thinking. By simply saying, "Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women (also racist comment), with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute." (p40), Paton illustrates how the women had no say in the business of the men, and that their role was to keep silent about important affairs. Alan also demonstrates men's superiority over women in the dialogue on page 40 saying, "I have been saving that for your new stove.." "I had meant it for your new black clothes, and new black hat, and new white collars." The differences in what the money would buy for the man and women show their different roles in society, as well as the differing amounts of respect that accompanies those roles.