Cry, The Beloved Country By Alan Paton Analysis

One of my favorite quotes is “Don’t stress. Do your best. Forget the rest,” because it reminds me not to fear things that are coming my way. It reminds me to just stay positive and do what is best for me. I also think that this quote can relate to the book Anthem because Equality has has feared in most of his life, but when he learns to break away from that fear he finally feels free.

Sarah once asked her children on a Thanksgiving Day, “Has anyone of you thanked God? Really thanked Him?” (29). At first, Sarah fearfully respects God, because she already knows that her prosperity that she has today is going to be taken by God eventually. Sarah’s true temperament is not truly revealed after the death of her five children. “Has death no meaning? Pain no meaning?”, Sarah questioned J.B (109). Sarah is bitter and angry at God, because she does not expect God to take away her loved ones that fast. She even becomes more depressed and hopeless when J.B is still faithful to God at this point. At the end of Scene Eight when Mrs. Murphy said, “And he’s alone now”, implying the leaving of Sarah for her own good. Sarah is an example of fake piety that is fallen after an astonishing punishment.

On September 11th 2001, 70 years old Rita Laser lost her brother. Along with Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber who as well lost someone special to them in the attack. Many of the victims families hid in silence after the attack, full of sadness, the government was trying to get revenge for the victims that were lost in the attack. However Rita Laser had a different outlook, she and others did not want revenge by killing other, her, Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber were all trying to install peace into the world not start a war. In Sue Halpern’s “A Peaceful Mourning” describes that in the aftermath of the attack they have all devoted their lives into advocating peace throughout the world, in their lost one’s name.

Even though he will not let himself be beaten for no reason, if he has made an inadvertent mistake, he will try to correct it, as he does with his grandmother, after accidentally embarrassing in church. “Later, I convinced her that I had not wanted to hurt her and she immediately seized upon my concern for her feelings as an opportunity to have one more try at bringing me to god. She wept and pleaded with me to pray... I promised; after all, I felt that I owed her something for inadvertently making her ridiculous before the member of her church.” (Wright 119) And he follows through with that. He prays, daily, for an hour. That hour is torture, but he keeps his promise, abiding by his moral code. He is different from the boys and girls of his church congregation, and class: they have been indoctrinated and do as they are told, docilely. One boy walks up to Richard, prompted by the congregation, who think that Richard is doomed to burn in Hell, and tries to convert him; it is obvious that the boy has no real conviction in God of his own, rather, the belief in God has been forced upon him by his parents and community. “Though older than I, he had neither known nor felt anything of life for himself; he had been carefully reared by his mother and father and he had always been told what to feel.”(Wright 116) Meanwhile, Wright, in stark contrast, resists the attempts of his Grandmother and extended family to indoctrinate him into religion, instead deciding to

At least he thought of how She would feel marrying that liar, Garang.” Also, In chapter 3 page 23, Stephen agrees that Naomi should marry Wol, This line shows that Stephen cares about who his sister Naomi marries. However, Stephen's mom thinks he shouldn't marry him in chapter 3 page 2, Stephens mom says, “Go, I told you. And anyway, how do you know why Wol said that?How do you know that he doesn’t want to marry her because She is beautiful, because then the people will speak well of him?What if She becomes ill and loses her beauty?Will he take a second wife? A third? He’s young, and we don’t know his character yet.” This line shows that Stephen's mom disagrees with Naomi marrying Wol.She has a whole different opinion on Wol wanting to marry Naomi.This shows how Stephen and his mom have very different opinions on

This poverty, he thought was the main reason for black crime. Kumalo also forgives people of his own family for their mistakes. Although, his sister Gertrude was a prostitute and his son had an illegitimate affair with a young girl, he accepted both Gertrude and the young girl into his family. A lawyer took the case of Kumalo for God, Msimangu helped him financially, Ms Lithebe provided his family shelter, and although Jarvis had lost his son to black crime, he still helped rebuild Ndotsheni.

Stephen feels if he were to use the money they saved for his son it wouldn’t be right. He also knows that if

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel written by Alan Paton; the novel is filled with biblical allusions referring to II Samuel. Cry, the Beloved Country was first published in 1948 and stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. Cry, the Beloved Country; a work of blazing artistry, is the intensely moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, and how they were set against the background of a land and a people divided by racial injustice. Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. The author, Alan Paton parallels II Samuel and Cry, the Beloved Country which heightens the understanding of the novel.

One of the places where this often happens is within a Christian community (Robinson). Lars is going through a tough time in his life where it would be easy for his church community to call him crazy and not show him the love of Christ. Another message that was extremely evident in the film was the healing power of the community. The church community really reached out to Lars and bought into his “fantasy” that he was living in. I had a very interesting talk with my mom about this movie after I told her what it was about and that I was writing a paper about it. She asked me the question, “If Jesus was on Earth, would He buy into Lars’s “fantasy”? That question really made me think and I had to go look back at situations in the Bible were God helped those who were consider “crazy”. I found that there were several stories in the Bible where God went to extremes to include all of the people He created, and the church community in this film definitely understood that concept. It’s simple, humans long for love. We, as humans, are built for relationships with other people. Part of the healing process is the ability to let others help. Lars was broken after the loss of his mother, and without the help of the church community he would have never found closure in his mother’s death. The third message was the analogy of the persistent love of God. God never gives

All through the beginning of his memoir, he shows a strong understanding with his belief in God and how God has and will teach him everything there is in the world. He states that a world without God is, simply, a world not worth living in. Throughout his childhood, any struggles that he encounters are always fixed with a sign from God.

Stephen's act of putting "his boots on the white cover" is symbolic of the purity and clarity of their love being tainted and dirtied by Isabelle's leaving, and the stain left on his mind and heart by this event. Through the use of the line "she felt she could save her

"I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do unto them and not forsake them” Isaiah 42:16. God promises to be there for His people as long as one believes in Him. The Kumalo family lives in a poor colored city in South Africa where they are constantly surrounded by the brokenness of the world. Knowing God will not forsake them helps one with building a strong connection with him. It is through this faith that Stephen, a priest, and devoted father, is able to find hope in the dark world he faces. Throughout the book Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton the flawed main character, Stephen Kumalo is able to go through the redemption cycle because of his relationship with God.

Stephen starts as an object - Baby Tuckoo - in his father's story of his early years and is thus without his own identity. Later, at Clongowes, he is either gripped with embarrassment as he fails to connect with his peers or speechless at a family Christmas dinner as debate and anger rages around him. He is isolated, associating only with the sounds of words (belt, iss, suck) and other stimuli. He doesn't understand the schoolboy argot and his consequent victimisation is all too predictable as his peers react with typical schoolboy nastiness to a boy who doesn't fit in.

Beloved is a novel written by Tony Morrison and is based on the American Civil War. The plot of the novel is based on the effects, consequences and the results of the Civil War. The author uses characters that would effectively bring out the Civil War theme in terms of social circles and occupations in the society. The novel is based on the characters regarded as slaves or have undergone capture, slavery and escaped from their masters (Haskins & Haskins 13). The main character in the novel, Sethe is a former slave and she underwent cruel times under her master. She manages to escape but the escape was not smooth as she lost one of her daughters in the process

was the husband of Gertrude, who in turn, went to look for him and found other men