... place for people. All the young men and young women have left, leaving behind old men and old women. The land is the source of life for all living things. Human depends on the land to survive. The desolation of the land symbolizes the desolation of men. During a debate about the native crime, the author points out, "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. ... Let him not love the earth too deeply nor give too much ... he even takes his time and effort to learn Zulu, the native language of the land. As he leaves for Johannesburg, something bright...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Cry, The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, is a book which tells the story of how Arthur Jarvis, a wealthy estate owner, because of his own busy life, had to learn of the social downgrading in South Africa through the death of his only son, Arthur Jarvis. The story is James" journey from being uneducated to becoming educated. If Arthur Jarvis had never been killed, his writings, and Stephen ... terms with the guilt of the whites by the same occurrence. After that both lose their sons, they have a need to understand them, although all that is left are the memories. They each learn of the problem...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Alan Paton's novel Cry the Beloved Country covers the story about a Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo, located in Ndotsheni, South Africa. Rev. Kumalo is presented with a letter written from Minister Theophilus Msimangu who lives ... his faith and just wants to help others through their troubles, and we could visualize that Kumalo would still be in Ndotsheni, with no knowledge of the risks of his sister We continue to see Msimangu being unselfish when he advices Kumalo through his journey to many members of his family. Msimangu converses with ... Mrs. Mkizeis to get information on Absalom who may...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... racial separation is described in Alan Paton's, Cry, The Beloved Country through two very different yet similar men, Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis. Both Jarvis and Kumalo develop the courage and endurance to overcome their fears, their social misconceptions, and their racial injustices, but Kumalo is the character who was most courageous and complex. ... his sister and is now taking his son. Kumalo has much more to lose on his journey than Jarvis, because he is not used to the city life and because of his skin color, he will not be treated as fairly. Jarvis' life is approached in a mo...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... may hear the forlorn crying of the titihoya, one of the birds of the veld. Below you is the valley of the umzimkulu, on its journey form the Drakensberg to the sea; and beyond and behind the river, great hill after great hill; and beyond and behind them, the mountains of Ingeli and East Griqualand (Paton 33). This would become the famous start to the first two parts of the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. It ... African society needed to learn. Paton began to reform Diepkloof into an educational society for troubled black boys. Instead of keeping them in, they received leave for good beh...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... , come to share similar experiences in the classic novel "Cry, the Beloved Country". The scene is South Africa and author Alan Paton depicts a story of its constant internal struggle between the whites and the blacks. Paton brings to light, not the difference between the races, but attempts to show equality among them. "The reader soon realizes it matters not a tinker's dam what the color of their respective skins is."(Schmitt ... come together try to help the cause. It is the tragedy of Arthur Jarvis that brings James and Stephen together to act similar and see eye to eye. With this lies...

• Word Count: 703
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Transversal: An Intersection of Two Parallel Lines The quote "for such a thing is not lightly done" can be portrayed as a dictum to describe the relationship between the Reverend Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis because of the fact that it is interracial - and such a thing is not lightly done in South Africa. These two men, derived from the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton are both pivotal ... and symbolic characters that depict the situation between blacks and whites in South Africa. ... Although both men live in the same town, they only cross paths with each other when th...

• Word Count: 789
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School