How is racism depicted in 'Life for a Life' by Alan Paton? 'Life for a Life' is a short story written by a famous white South African author who became involved in the fight against apartheid. It is a story about the murder of a rich white farmer and the revenge killing of a black shepherd. The story was written at the height of apartheid in 1962. Most of Alan Paton's work was written to express …showed first 75 words of 1078 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1078 total…interesting and thought provoking story. It is a story that shows how both the white and black people suffer. The white people suffer because Baas Flip is brutally murdered and therefore the family suffers. The black people suffer as they are picked upon as it is assumed that a black person has committed the crime. Ultimately it is a story about black suffering and the cruelty black people faced at the hands of the whites.