Cry of the Beloved Country
Honors Literature 6th
9, September 2013
Cry of the Beloved Country Essay
Cry of the Beloved Country is a book about courage. Two of the main characters, James Jarvis and Stephen Kumalo discover new things about their sons. While they both lost many things like relatives and trust, James Jarvis was the more courageous and advanced characters. James Jarvis was able to forgive and move on with the loss of his son and his wife. Jarvis develops in the way that he wants to devote his life to helping the blacks. He even helped Stephen Kumalo's town, which was also his hometown. Stephen Kumalo lived a quiet life as the Umfundisi of the solemn town of Ndotsheni. One day he gets a letter which brings him to the city of Johannesburg. While in Johannesburg he finds his sister and discovers that she is an abomination and a disgrace to the Kumalo family. She has a son with no father, worked as a prostitute, and will not put herself together. Stephen also meets his brother John who he has not heard from since John left Ndotsheni. Stephen is shocked to find that he es one of the cities leading activists and loves living in Johannesburg. Kumalo searches for his son Absalom and has a hard time doing it. Once he finds him he discovers that he has committed a murder by killing Arthur Jarvis, one of the cities favored people and James Jarvis' son, and that he is to be sentenced to death. Stephen speaks with his son and learns that he really wants to go back to Ndotsheni and that he intends to marry his girlfriend before he is to be hanged. Stephen Kumalo becomes a very ashamed man for what has become of his family. Kumalo is a man of God so he does not intend to get hung up by this too much. When Kumalo returns to Ndotsheni, he grieves over the loss of his son, but in the end he comes to an inner peace and ties up loose ends with James Jarvis. James Jarvis is an economically rich man who lives on a hill near Ndotsheni. He is a very ignorant man in the beginning who
9, September 2013
Cry of the Beloved Country Essay
Cry of the Beloved Country is a book about courage. Two of the main characters, James Jarvis and Stephen Kumalo discover new things about their sons. While they both lost many things like relatives and trust, James Jarvis was the more courageous and advanced characters. James Jarvis was able to forgive and move on with the loss of his son and his wife. Jarvis develops in the way that he wants to devote his life to helping the blacks. He even helped Stephen Kumalo's town, which was also his hometown. Stephen Kumalo lived a quiet life as the Umfundisi of the solemn town of Ndotsheni. One day he gets a letter which brings him to the city of Johannesburg. While in Johannesburg he finds his sister and discovers that she is an abomination and a disgrace to the Kumalo family. She has a son with no father, worked as a prostitute, and will not put herself together. Stephen also meets his brother John who he has not heard from since John left Ndotsheni. Stephen is shocked to find that he es one of the cities leading activists and loves living in Johannesburg. Kumalo searches for his son Absalom and has a hard time doing it. Once he finds him he discovers that he has committed a murder by killing Arthur Jarvis, one of the cities favored people and James Jarvis' son, and that he is to be sentenced to death. Stephen speaks with his son and learns that he really wants to go back to Ndotsheni and that he intends to marry his girlfriend before he is to be hanged. Stephen Kumalo becomes a very ashamed man for what has become of his family. Kumalo is a man of God so he does not intend to get hung up by this too much. When Kumalo returns to Ndotsheni, he grieves over the loss of his son, but in the end he comes to an inner peace and ties up loose ends with James Jarvis. James Jarvis is an economically rich man who lives on a hill near Ndotsheni. He is a very ignorant man in the beginning who