... 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 they lose their sons, in which Kumalo's son ... Absalom, kills Jarvis" son, Arthur. The two characte...

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