文档介绍：A Drink in the Passage
Author Alan Paton (1903-1988)
精品资料
你怎么称呼老师？
如果老师最后没有总结一节课的重点的难点，你是否会认为老师的教学方法需要改进？
你所经历的课堂，是讲座式还是讨论式？
教师的教鞭
“不怕太阳晒，也不怕那风雨狂，只怕先生骂我笨，没有学问无颜见爹娘 ……”
“太阳当空照，花儿对我笑，小鸟说早早早……”
Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He started his career by teaching  at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory (管教所）for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg, had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) made him one of South Africa’s best known writers, and by the time he died, it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals, he helped to found the South African Liberal Party and became its president.
His Works Cry, the Beloved Country
Perhaps the most famous novel to come out of South Africa, Paton’s 1948 work brought to the notice of the world the dilemmas of ordinary South Africans living under an oppressive system, one which threatened to destroy their very humanity. Informed by Paton’s Christian and liberal beliefs, the novel tells of a rural Zulu parson’s （牧师） heart-breaking search for his son, who has been drawn into the criminal underworld of the city. Cry, the Beloved Country has sold millions of copies around the world.
Apartheid
With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized（使制度化）. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning （认可）of “white-only” jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). The coloured category included
Apartheid
major subgroups of Indians and Asians. Classification into these categories was based on appearance, social acceptance, and descent（血统）. Non-compliance with the race laws were dealt with harshly.