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3. Nov. 2023 · “The Waste Land” is a short story by Alan Paton that tells the story of a working man’s deadly encounter with a group of criminal young men. The story is set in an unnamed city...
The main themes in "The Waste Land" by Alan Paton are fear, social breakdown, and poverty and violence. Fear: The protagonist's fear dominates this short story, driving him to act in...
Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.
Alan Paton's "The Waste Land'' was written in 1961 and is set in an unnamed town in an unspecified country. Given Paton’s South African nationality, the focus of most of his...
By Alan Paton. The moment that the bus moved on he knew he was in danger, for by the lights of it he saw the figures of the young men waiting under the tree. That was the thing feared by all, to be waited for by young men. It was a thing he had talked about, now he was to see it for himself. It was too late to run after the bus; it went down ...
“The Waste Land” by Alan Paton is a third-person narrative with a storyteller who confines himself to the point of view of one of the characters, the older man. As a result, everything narrated is only what the characters knows, hears, sees and feels.
T. S. Eliot. Study Guide. Summary & Analysis. T. S. Eliot opens The Waste Land with an epigraph taken from a Latin novel by Petronius. The epigraph describes a woman with prophetic powers who has been blessed with long life, but who doesn’t stay eternally young. Facing a future of irreversible decrepitude, she proclaims her longing for death.
