... Johannesburg to locate his sister and his son. While he is there, he learns his sister Gertrude Kumalo has become a prostitute. Besides that, while looking for his son he meets Absalom's girlfriend, who he also thinks dirty of when asking her to come home with him. Stephen is deeply ashamed of his sister's actions. In the book, Gertrude becomes a gambler, drinker ... began to reform Diepkloof into an educational society for troubled black boys. Instead of keeping them in, they received leave for good behavior. In Cry, the Beloved Country, Stephen's son Absalom was in this Diepkloof Refo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... section of the novel to concentrates on the future of the entire village of Ndotsheni, but even larger, the fate of his beloved South Africa and lessens his concern for Absalom. Paton realized that his energy and ardor is useless when they are focused on things that you can change as oppose to things that you have not control over. In ... ...

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