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Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country

            Alan Paton is often known worldwide for his large success in literature. His meaningful novel, "Cry, the Beloved Country", owes him a large amount of his success. Alan Paton was raised in Pietermaritzburg Natal Province by his parents James and Eunice. His parents both from europe offered a strict childlife, but brought him into his love for literature and helped him to be an educated young man (South). Paton later taught in a school for the youth (Paton). Paton's writing changed many South Africans and the rest of the world. His book still remains popular even close to 20 years later after his death in 1988. His passionate words about the horrors and suffering in South Africa that he and many others encountered has greatly affected and touched everyone who has taken the time to really read this novel.
             While making the decision of what Paton wanted to do with his life he battled between being a politician or a writer. He actively with his persistence and knowledge achieved both. He became a chairman, and led many parties and organizations. Alan Paton became most aware of the racial and social problems the colored people of South Africa were having though when he worked at Diepkloof Reformatory from 1935 to 1948 as the principal.(Alan) With this being said he continued to be a very active opposer of the Apartheid laws and continued after writing the novel to be active in changing the country of South Africa. As a white man he had many struggles fighting against as the whites would consider him as their "own kind", when those of different races were just the same as they were, despite their skin color.
             Due to the time period that this novel was written in the book is very special from others about African culture. "Cry, the Beloved Country" was written a year before the laws of Apartheid began, but the segregation was still at a high. In 1950 the Population Registration Act of 1950 developed categorizing the races and distributing the rights they "deserved".


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1. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

In the 1940th century, historical fiction novel, Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton uses asyndeton to create an overwhelming presence in Johannesburg's environment, modifying human morality and ambition. ... Paton develops bewilderment by comparing the two very different settings. ... Paton portrays him now as an influential politician, instead of his former, humble self. ... The entire country mourns. ... In Cry, The Beloved Country, the main setting throughout the book is Johannesburg, a city containing hardship, corruption, and chaos. ...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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Alan Paton, the author of the eye-opening book, Cry the Beloved Country boldly states his belief through an innovative, heart-wrenching story of a native pastor who unites with an affluent white South African, the father of the man whom his very son murdered. ... On January 11, 1903, Alan Paton was brought into what seemed to be an ill-omened South Africa. ... In Cry the Beloved Country, Paton dives right in to the poignant past. ... In his latter famous novel, Cry the Beloved Country, Paton derived at a plan that his intricate characters would act out that would shine a light on a possible...

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Ixopo would later become increasing familiar in his book, Cry, the Beloved Country. ... This would become the famous start to the first two parts of the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. ... In his novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, Stephen Kumalo goes to Johannesburg to locate his sister and his son. ... It was during one of these nights he went back to his hotel room and began writing his novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. ... This was the same underlying thoughts and last words of Arthur Jarvis in Cry, the Beloved Country. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

4. Violence in: Cry, the Beloved Country

Violence in: Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton In the novel, Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton, an important scene in the story is one of violence. ... Violence can sometimes play a big part in something positive in a novel as it did in Cry, The Beloved Country....

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5. Cry, The Beloved Country

As authors began to write about their home country, talking about both the negative and positive, people from other places can see the similarity between the respective countries. ... In Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton brought out three specific problems that were obvious in South Africa, what he may not have realized was that these problems are prevalent throughout the world. ...

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6. Cry Beloved Country

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7. Direct Quote essay

Chapter 23, page 205 of Cry, the Beloved Country. ... At this point in the novel, the author Alan Paton breaks almost entirely from the original narrative to discuss the political situation in South Africa. ... Paton focuses on the problems of Johannesburg as well as the other events in the novel. ... Paton's views on the rural areas and the urban areas are clear through his writing. ... Paton's perspective also has a strong American influence. ...

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8. Cry, The Beloved Country

Human Qualities in Cry, the Beloved Country Set in apartheid South Africa, Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country portrays realistic characters by making them have human qualities, both negative and positive. ... However, negative traits like fear are also present in the novel, exhibited in Gertrude and a country that is also portrayed as its own character, South Africa. ... Furthermore, the fear will rob everything off everyone who loves and gives too much like Stephen, who nevertheless overcame his dread at the end of the novel and saw hope for his country. ... Just like ordinary ...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

9. Novel Analysis - Cry the Beloved Country

Alan Paton's novel Cry the Beloved Country covers the story about a Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo, located in Ndotsheni, South Africa. ... I am dear brother in Christ" (Paton 37). ... Especially towards the end of the book, when Msimangu tells Kumalo that he unquestionably wants to give all of his worldly belongings up such as his land and life savings (thirty-three pounds) and just simply become a monk (Paton 238-262). ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

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