character who shows the quality of cherishing life and caring for others is the life of Kumalo. Kumalo is a man who will put his family first before himself in any situation. Kumalo went down to a distant country and to care of Gertrude his sister. While Kumalo is taking care of his sister‚ he hears about a terrible tragedy between his son and a white man named Arthur Jarvis ‚ who is a supporter of black rights. Kumalo knows the wrong his son has done to this distinguished man ‚ and he tells his son to
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struggles within South Africa through the eyes of two opposite characters: James Jarvis and Stephen Kumalo. James Jarvis is a wealthy white man coping with the loss of his son while questioning his attitudes toward the racial injustice of his country. Stephen Kumalo is a native black priest whose life takes a turn when he discovers the vices and twisted realities behind Johannesburg and his home country. Kumalo receives a first-hand experience of the issues within his country along his journey to Johannesburg
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Both characters go through dynamic evolution throughout the novel. Stephen Kumalo starts his path as a naïve‚ rural priest‚ who wishes to reunite his family by brining his sister‚ Gertrude and his son‚ Absalom back. In the process of his journey‚ he loses his naivety by facing the consequences of his son’s failure. Although he loses his son‚ who was finally hung for killing Arthur Jarvis‚ Kumalo discovers a newfound maturity and wisdom. His effort to reunite his family is comparable
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The book "Cry‚ the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton is a book about agitation and turmoil of both whites and blacks over the white segregation policy called apartheid. The book describes how understanding between whites and blacks can end mutual fear and aggresion‚ and bring reform and hope to a small community of Ndotcheni as well as to South Africa as a whole. The language of the book reflects the Bible; furthermore‚ several characters and episodes are reminiscent of stories from the New Testament
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where Kumalo lives. Stephen Kumalo‚ the main protagonist of Alan Paton’s Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚ is a meek Zulu pastor who has lived as a native in Ndotsheni. Kumalo discovers his sister Gertrude has fallen ill as addressed in a letter from a fellow priest in Johannesburg. Despite the cost of the strenuous excursion to Johannesburg‚ Kumalo flees Ndotsheni in hopes of Gertrude’s quick recovery and finding his son Absalom along his journey. Everyday seems to be a challenging obstacle for Kumalo (I used
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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
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readers that one needs help from others to be able to recover. He showed this through the main character Stephen Kumalo who was frightened by the struggling of his family‚ who were struggling to make life better for themselves. Instead of fighting by himself he looked up for his brother’s support to overcome the fear. He delivered his message by altering the tone of the book whenever Kumalo felt down and used pathos to show Kumalo’s emotional rollercoaster as he strived to reach happiness. Alan Paton
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Stephen Kumalo receives a letter at his home in Ndotsheni from a minister urging him to come to Johannesburg. The letter says that he is needed there to help his sister‚ Gertrude‚ who is not well. Kumalo agrees to take the journey‚ in hope of helping Gertrude. Following his arrival‚ he finds that Gertrude is spiritually ill; she has fell away from the church and her religious ways. She now involves herself with prostitution and sells illegal liquor with a son in her custody. In aid to her‚ Kumalo persuades
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the book Cry the Beloved Country‚ by Alan Paton‚ Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis are two different people and although they live in the same village they come from two extremely different worlds‚ and end up meeting in the middle. Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis are two different people. Kumalo is a poor black preacher from the valley of the South African village of Ndotsheni. While looking for his sister in
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During a state of fear‚ all someone could think about is nothing but the fear and how to get rid of it. Throughout the whole book‚ Stephen Kumalo is seen as someone who is pretty sensitive and fear would only bring him to an even worse condition. What Stephen Kumalo fears the most would be the unknown. He is in a new environment‚ a place where he has no reputation for himself at all. When he first enters Johannesburg he is immediately deceived by someone who said that he would help him but backstabbed
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