The Effect of Fear

Personally I believe the effect of fear is underlying throughout the whole entire novel of Cry the Beloved Country, and it made itself known at least once every reading if not every chapter. I believe that it is shown through the effects of the apartheid. The whole movement of the apartheid was because the white man felt threatened by the black people thus by force and because of higher education they changed it so that the black people stayed below the white people.

The white people would come up with the stereotypes for the "natives" as they called them bringing their crime and their faults to the forefront to have people believe through fear that they were naturally bad or that the whites were above them. The whole apartheid movement was run by the effect of fear. Fear never gets us anywhere. If we fear, sure we may stay safer, our progress slows down as well and we get less and less done. Fear was the main obstacle in keeping the country basically separated and leading up to trouble that could have very easily been avoided then and even now.
Fear keeps us from solving problems. Life is about learning, you can't learn anything if you don't take some sort of risk. It's like practically any experience. You can't get the full experience of a book and its full meaning to you if you never open it. Sure you can look on Sparknotes or have somebody tell you what happened, but you didn't learn as much as you could have or get some of those lessons that, who knows, you could possibly use later in life. You learned maybe a little, but like in other discoveries, it would take so much more time to get where you want to be on those bits and pieces of information and having fear rule what you would do than to take a risk and learn the results.