“Perhaps it does not seem to them that we suffer. Perhaps they do not care for it.” (Paton 39) Many people around the world went through some type of oppression. Some of the oppressed united as one to overcome the oppressors. Some as small as a family, others as big as a community. They united to gain freedom from the oppressors. In times of oppression marinating familial and cultural ties within the oppressed group allows its people to retain hope, organize, and gain power by relying on each other for support. Nelson Mandela when he was in prison, Gertrude when she needs help and Fredrick time with Mrs. Arnold.
Many people, like Nelson Mandela, united his family to overcome the oppression. While Nelson Mandela was serving his life sentence for standing …show more content…
Gertrude Kumalo was living in a town called Claremont. “She lives in Claremont, not far from here. IT is one of the worst places in Johannesburg. After the police have been there, you can see the liquor running in the streets. You can smell nothing else, wherever you go in that place.” (Paton 53) Gertrude lived that way ever since she left Natal. Her brother Stephan Kumalo {Kumalo} left Natal to see Gertrude to see her prostituting and an alcoholic. Kumalo felt like she disgraced the Kumalo name. “You have disgraced us…A liquor seller, a prostitute, with a child and you do not know where it is…” (Paton 61) When Kumalo talked some sense into Gertrude. Gertrude agreed to go back with Kumalo to Natal. “Do you wish to come back...I do not like Johannesburg…I am sick here. The child is sick.” After Gertrude wanted to go back to Natal, she gained hope for a better future, for the child and herself, without uniting her family she would still have no hope to get a better future for her soon. If they didn’t unite they, Gertrude and her son, would still be living in a rundown town, surrounded by liquor, and
Many people, like Nelson Mandela, united his family to overcome the oppression. While Nelson Mandela was serving his life sentence for standing …show more content…
Gertrude Kumalo was living in a town called Claremont. “She lives in Claremont, not far from here. IT is one of the worst places in Johannesburg. After the police have been there, you can see the liquor running in the streets. You can smell nothing else, wherever you go in that place.” (Paton 53) Gertrude lived that way ever since she left Natal. Her brother Stephan Kumalo {Kumalo} left Natal to see Gertrude to see her prostituting and an alcoholic. Kumalo felt like she disgraced the Kumalo name. “You have disgraced us…A liquor seller, a prostitute, with a child and you do not know where it is…” (Paton 61) When Kumalo talked some sense into Gertrude. Gertrude agreed to go back with Kumalo to Natal. “Do you wish to come back...I do not like Johannesburg…I am sick here. The child is sick.” After Gertrude wanted to go back to Natal, she gained hope for a better future, for the child and herself, without uniting her family she would still have no hope to get a better future for her soon. If they didn’t unite they, Gertrude and her son, would still be living in a rundown town, surrounded by liquor, and