The Problem Of Fear In Cry The Beloved Country

In the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country fear is a continuing problem within people, especially in South Africa. Whether or not it is people fearing simple little things such as bugs, or people fearing much bigger things such as each other. In the book a big thing that goes into the fear is segregation, white people fear African Americans and African Americans fear white people. This leads to problems such as murder, and a well-known reverend to lose his faith in God.
One of the first characters introduced in the book is Reverend Stephen Kumalo, the first problem in the book is that the reverend must go find his son who ran off from their home in Ndotsheni and gone to Johannesburg. Johannesburg is a well-known place for people going and never coming back. The first fear shown in the book is Stephen Kumalo’s fear of Johannesburg, but he pushes his fear aside when it comes to searching for his son, Absalom Kumalo.
And the problem behind all these things, fear. He was robbing people because of peer pressure, and peer pressure is caused by fearing what other people will think. Then it came to his final robbery, Arthur Jarvis, a white man who wanted to fight about his beliefs on segregation, but he never had the chance to. Absalom never had the intention to hurt anyone, but how did he manage to murder someone. He carried around revolver, just to scare people, with no intention to hurt someone. But as he was robbing Arthur’s house, the maid started yelling from Arthur, and out of fear, Absalom shot Arthur and killed