Personal Reading Study :: English Literature

individualised Reading StudyPersonal Reading Study phone Freedom by John BrileyQ postulate a novel in which a relationship between 2 differentcharacters is developed. Show how the developing relationship between Steve Biko and DonaldWoods explores the motive 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, film and Key incidents.And towards that day, when the isolation that creates hostility becomes the closeness that permits friendship, let us marriage in the songof South Africa As the above quotation suggests Cry Freedom by John Briley, is afascinating study of the truly life relationship between Donald Woodsand Steve Biko. The author employs a concoction of literary techniquesto demonstrate how two very different men with disparate lifestylesbecome close, and how their relationship develops under complexcircumstances. In my essay I leave behind show how the r elationship betweenSteve Biko and Donald Woods develops and I will also 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 interest in the developingrelationship between the two protagonists. Before their firstmeeting I imagine that Donald Woods was not very sure of what hethought of blacks in South Africa and how a good deal freedom they should beallowed to have. It seems to me that Donald Woods, as a white liberaland an editor program contradicted himself many times. An example of this is,He did not believe blacks should be effrontery the full right to vote.But a few sentences later there is a quotation saying,When he caught the Government violating those introductory 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 that in these quotations Woods contradicts himself as hebelieves blacks should not be minded(p) the full right to vote yet when hecaught the Government violating those basic ethical premises hewould argue with them. It seems to me that Woods is not in like manner sure whathe believes is acceptable for blacks, and how far they should beallowed to go in the justice system. Furthermore, before their first meeting Woods did not extol ofBikos black consciousness principles. He believed that Bikosprinciples were all close black prejudice and that he did not wanteverything to be unobjectionable in South Africa but instead to be the way the