ey see their families falling apart and fear it will only continue. The natives see the things around them falling apart and can do little to prevent it from continuing.The people of South Africa are beginning to realize that not only is the tribe deteriorating, but also the people in general are beginning to deteriorate. The white man fears the crimes the natives are committing, but in fact, they are the ones responsible. When the white man takes away the tribal system, he is taking away the moral system of the natives. The reason the natives turn to crime is because their “simple system of order and tradition and convention has been destroyed” by the white man (179). Whites rob natives of their traditional moral system and replace it with nothing. This leaves the natives with no foundation for their morals and leads them towards a dishonest life. A priest in the novel says, “The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again…It suited the white man to break the tribe, but it has not suited him to build something in the place of what is broken” (56). The white man fears the natives will become smart and powerful and overcome the superiority of the white race. However, because the white man exploits the natives for their personal gain instead of helping them, not just a tribal system declines, but a “whole people deteriorates” (179).The natives turn to crime because their moral system has been destroyed and there is no where else to turn. Therefore, the whites simply blame the natives for their problems instead of looking for a solution to help them all.Another thing the people of South Africa cry for is fear. They cannot enjoy the land when there is fear living inside all of them. They mostly fear the growing lawlessness of the country, yet they do not understand how to restore the law. Not all the white men are ignorant to the problems of the c...
