Apartheid stands as the novel's primary social concern. With his subtle and sympathetic treatment of this particular issue, Paton established a tradition in South African literature that is mirrored in the works of J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer. Absalom Kumalo's murder of Arthur Jarvis does not lessen the readers' sympathy for those oppressed by apartheid; rather, it suggests the complexity of evils spawned by such oppression. Readers will certainly want to compare the social climate in South Africa as Paton describes it with the current struggle of South African blacks for equality......
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