Elements and the Book

My media source that I found is not very long, and is just a short story of a murder that took place in South Africa. Thinking outside of the box, this article can be related to Arthur’s notes. Of course it is not so prominent in how it is conveyed from this simple story, but there was a more important reason I chose this. This article has a direct relation to the entire murder that took place in the story. It obviously has differences, but it is so similar in how it happened that I needed to talk about it. First of all this is real life, so it makes it that much more interesting.
I will first compare and contrast. A very powerful, repeated word that Arthur used in one of his notes was permissible. It was either not permissible, or it was. This is applicable in a sense of saying that what has happened is obviously not permissible. The fact that these kids committed murder merely to get some semi-valuable items is not permissible. This story also goes to show the fear of the land, and how extremely fearful people must be. When murders like this happen, it will undoubtedly be a scary thing. Another interesting thing is that, because it was so similar to the story’s murder case, it is as if that kind of crime has not changed. This makes Arthur and his beliefs more influential when comparing it to this modern story. How can unity happen when things like this happen, and how can Christianity be prominent with this sort of reality?
Now just to mention how similar the story is to the one in Cry, The Beloved Country, I was going to describe how it is. Basically these boys broke in this older man’s house and ended up killing him. It could just be that I am primed to think of the murder in the book when hearing about these murders, but to me it seemed pretty similar to the murders in the book, and I found that to be quite interesting.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Cape-teenagers-jailed-20111209