Cry, The Beloved Country

Worry ends when faith in God begins. Faith has been a part of history since the beginning of time and has remained constant throughout life today. Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “Burning House”, examines pure faith and the cry for God’s love in a time of need. Alongside of the poem from 1666, the movie ‘Courageous’, produced by Stephen Kendrick, represents during a tragedy, it is not always easy to keep a focused mind on the Lord, but the most significant way to be led through a tough time, is to praise the Lord. Anne Bradstreet’s poem and the movie ‘Courageous’, shows the relentless love from the Lord in a time of an aching heart.

This connects the reader to the story. This connects to the reader and helps the reader relate to the fight between the couple. The author uses dialogue because it helps the reader establish the tension and fury between the two characters. The text states “ What would you like to do? Get the button back and push it? Murder someone “(108). This textual evidence illustrates how the dialogue was worded helped the reader establish how the characters were feeling at this moment. The text states “ Why are you getting so upset? It's only talk.”(108) This evidence portrays the frustration between the characters and how this creates a divide between the characters. In conclusion, the dialogue helps the reader establish the tone and helps the reader understand the story better.

The plot of Cry, the Beloved Country is relatively simple to understand. Stephen Kumalo gets a letter saying his sister is sick, she’s spiritually sick, he travels to Johannesburg, finds Gertrude who is a prostitute and bootlegging. Then he searches for his son; soon he finds out his son got a girl pregnant and killed someone. Stephen’s son is tried and sentenced to death by hanging. In the end the family of the boy killed and Stephen's family hold no ill will towards each other. On occasion the plot allows readers to make inferences to their own lives or to the lives of people they

In Cry, the Beloved Country, the city of Johannesburg enables Gertrude’s desires to control her life, yet the desires that govern her are shamefully careless. Before Gertrude left Ndosheni, she had been surrounded by villagers who essentially knew many or all of their community’s people, including her. With the fear that several people would know of or observe her actions, Gertrude was encouraged to act upon the ethical desires widely accepted by her people. On the other hand, Johannesburg has little to no sense of community—being a heavily populated city and the majority of its inhabitants strangers to one another—which allows Gertrude to pursue the amoral desires within her, and for them to occur unnoticed by relatives. When Stephen Kumalo, her brother, finally receives word of Gertrude’s illness, he leaves for Johannesburg and finds her in a shabby, dirty house, crammed between similar buildings. Anxiously standing in front of his sister’s door, awaiting what would be their first encounter after several months, Kumalo overhears a “laughter in the house, the kind of laughter of which one is afraid… perhaps because it is in truth bad laughter,” (Paton 59 emphasis added). The bad laughter he hears is a product of Gertrude’s careless desires; her undisciplined lust for men. The context in which this laughter comes from is what makes it bad, especially in Kumalo’s mind, for he is not just her family, but a priest as well. Without a close-knit community to direct

“After seventy days… a little rain came.” (23) As many people know, throughout a person’s life, he or she faces hardships, but the one thing that they all look for in these times

Nhat Hanh once said “In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.” Everyone uses dialogue on a daily basis. Dialogue is when two characters are having a conversation, but through dialogue, the characters’ personalities show. Dialogue helps the readers to understand how the characters are feeling in a section of a book. In the novel Canyons by Gary Paulsen and the short story “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown ” by Walter Dean Myers, the authors use dialogue to develop the character’s personality.

Sorrow only increased with knowledge. […] of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling. (Shelly 81)

One cannot run from hardships, for they occur every day, appear suddenly, and can quickly consume hope. Instead one must face these difficulties and overcome them. However, to rise above obstacles alone would only cause further misery and despair. The struggler’s family should rally behind him to comfort and assist him in his time of need. In Cry, the Beloved Country, a 1948 contemporary novel, Alan Paton uses parallelism to emphasize the importance of family because when individuals encounter hardships they need support from others to help them.

In the Novel “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton, two fathers are trying to put the pieces of there families back together while also keeping themselves together. They each go through a variety of struggles, with one learning his sister is a prostitute and his son is a murder while the other deals with his sons death and tries to move passed it. Throughout the novel, racial tension is a theme frequently seen from the beginning of the book til the very end. Paton uses the setting of South Africa to underscore racial tension associated with the apartheid movement to illustrate these themes. The concept of racism is prevalent during the story as it is used by the government to caused both blacks and whites to fear each other which eventually tears apart Kumalo’s family.

Alan Paton’s novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, is broken into three books and book one is organized around Stephen Kumalo’s search for his son, Absalom Kumalo. This search is a journey that leads to a new spiritual awareness in Stephen Kumalo. Thus, metaphors about the storm and the phoenix are metaphors used to develop the growth of Kumalo’s mind and heart as on how he will mend his tribe back together and continue to seek divine sustenance. The metaphor about a storm is one of the most important in the novel and Stephen Kumalo states it.

Cry The Beloved Country Character Analysis Essay In Alan Paton’s Cry The Beloved Country, Stephen Kumalo contributes to the distressed society of the discrimination in South Africa through his determination and humbleness. The society of the South Africa has been through many complications because of the inequality between the colored and white people. Author Alan Paton experiences the unfairness of the South African society in the novel, Cry The Beloved Country. The main character, Stephen Kumalo, who is a gregarious and tranquil man learns about what is happening outside of his village in South Africa when a takes a long journey in attempt to reunite with his long lost relatives.

Starting with “The Wanderer,” the speaker begins his tale by reminiscing upon his trials and tribulations of which he has suffered a great deal and “longs for relief, the Almighty’s mercy” (118). He has lost his friends and no longer has anyone to confide in, forcing him to be alone with his thoughts: “So I must hold in the thoughts of my heart” (118). In the midst of his grieving, the Wanderer recalls a joyous occasions, such as when “his friend and lord helped him to the feast” (119), only to realize that what once was, is no longer. He finds comfort in his dreams, longing to be back with his “liege-lord again” only to awaken and have reality come shattering down upon him (119). However, he comes to the conclusion that through hardship and suffering, one matures, grows, learns his place in life and how “a good man holds his words back, tells his woes not too soon, baring his inner heart before knowing the best way” (120).

Kristina Chau Mr. Webber English 2 11 January 2017 In Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton, James Jarvis and Stephen Kumalo have many similarities and differences. They are physically different, Jarvis is white and Kumalo is black, but they also have many similarities in their lifestyle, attitudes, and relationships. While some differences between Jarvis and Kumalo are one is a farmer and another is a priest, and one believes the main priority is agriculture while another believes it is faith, the similarity is they both go to Johannesburg for their families and to search for their son physically and spiritually.

In both texts language and the stylistic feature of imagery is used to present the impact of the belief of superiority of race to enhance the idea of racism in both texts. In Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton bases the novel around black African people living in South Africa, awakening others to realise the lives of non-whites living in South Africa. Cry, The Beloved Country is set during a period of time of historical racial tension in South Africa which lead to a strict political policy where white people

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