Coding the TEXT 3/21/12

  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:
Characterization(Jarvis)
Point of View(3rd Person)
Repetition
Allusion
Sentence Structure(long, quite a few commas, but not run-on)

Cry the Beloved Country

   The men are stronger, more important. Paton develops the power of gender slowly, just by describing men, and rarely speaking of women. Paton wrote: "Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed." (pg 1) The men are the most important thing, they are what keeps society going strong. In another passage: "They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away." (pg 2) The men have left the dead land, leaving the rest to care for themselves.
   Later Paton writes: "Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man." The women are lower in society, while the men are what keeps it going. Women may be only as important as cooking and childbearing, while the men hunt, work, and protect society.
   With these differences, women are more important in African society, while they are almost meaningless in Paton's eyes.