Stephen Kumalo‚ the main character in Alan Paton’s Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ is a tragic hero because of the reversal in Stephen’s fortunes in his search for his son‚ Absalom. Kumalo passes from happiness to misery from the point when he finds Gertrude to Absalom’s hanging. He also has hamartia‚ demonstrated in the sporadic dishonesty or tantrum. Finally‚ Kumalo is not virtuous and just‚ since he tries to get his son a pardon instead of holding Absalom responsible for Arthur’s murder. Kumalo transitions
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Stephen Kumalo starts his journey like any other hero‚ with a certain element of fear. When Kumalo embarks on his journey to Johannesburg to search for his sister he is scared. He is scared of a host of things. He is scared for his sister and how much it will cost to cure her. He is scared of the vastness of the great city of Johannesburg "where boys are killed crossing the street" (Paton 42). And deep down inside he is scared of the well-being and whereabouts of his son. At this stage Kumalo " lives
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Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis:Comparing Their Character DevelopmentThis essay will compare the character development of Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis in Alan Patons novel‚ Cry‚ The Beloved Country. Even though the two men are of two races‚ they experience a parallel journey. The first three paragraphs will describe Kumalos path of how he tries to find the truth about his son‚ and then the healing process after his sons trial. The fourth and fifth paragraph will depict the path James Jarvis took
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brother‚ John‚ the carpenter‚ had gone there to start a business of his own. his sister‚ gertrude who was about 25 yeas younger than him‚ had gone there with her son to look fot her husband who had never come back from the mines. his son‚ absolom kumalo‚ had gone there to look for Gertrude‚ his aunt but there was no news about him either when the little girl told him that she had a letter for him‚ he was taken aback for he had been waiting since so long to receive a ltter from johhanburg‚ but
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honorable? Many people would say that an honorable man is generous and brave; he also cares about other people before himself. A particular character in Alan Paton’s Cry The Beloved Country‚ the main character of Kumalo possesses honor. Here are some of the reasons based on the book why Kumalo has honor‚ and why some people may think he doesn’t. Which one will you choose? First of all‚ One reason why he posseses honor is because he is taking risks for other people. He came out of his comforts in
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people to solve their problems. In the novel‚ ¡°Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚¡± Alan Paton showed the way those white and black people struggled for justice‚ and their dreams of reuniting families and their nation by comparing the stories of Kumalo and Jarvis. Kumalo was a poor black priest whose sorrows and family tragedies symbolized the suffering natives in South Africa‚ and Jarvis was a conservative rich landowner who symbolized those rich white people that had sympathy to the blacks and hoped to
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around the 1940’s. Stephen Kumalo‚ a priest that lives in the village of Ndotsheni‚ receives a letter unexpectedly‚ asking him to come to the city of Johannesburg because his sister Gertrude is very ill. Kumalo is willing to make this long and expensive journey‚ being that two other of his family members live there; his brother and his son. While in Johannesburg‚ Kumalo discovers not only his sister in a rough state‚ but also his son‚ Absolom‚ in an even worse state. What Kumalo doesn’t expect during
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Stephen Kumalo The pastor of Ixopo‚ a village in the rural South African region of Ndotsheni‚ Kumalo visits Johannesburg in order to save his sister‚ Gertrude‚ when he receives a letter telling him that she is ill‚ but then begins to search for his son‚ Absalom‚ who had gone to Johannesburg but never returned. A kind and just man who believes in the strength of family life‚ Kumalo searches desperately for his son in order to reunite his family‚ but becomes an activist for social justice and a return
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In the opening chapters of Cry‚ the Beloved Country by Alan Paton‚ Reverend Stephen Kumalo‚ an older South African-native parson‚ must make an immediate two-day journey to his nation’s capital‚ the large and mysterious Johannesburg. The year is 1946; Kumalo’s home village is called Ndotsheni‚ and is located in Natal. He has lived his whole life here‚ in the “slow tribal rhythm;” he fears Johannesburg‚ for some of his family have left Ndotsheni for it and nothing more is heard of them. But on a quiet
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black Stephen Kumalo. Both of these families find themselves in time of despair and tragedy because of the decisions that have occurred in their relations‚ telling each to step up for what is right. This
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