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Cry, the Beloved Country
The Kumalo family, like South Africa on the eve of apartheid, is deeply fractured. Much of the story revolves around Stephen Kumalo's repeated attempts to keep his family together at a time of...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry the Beloved Country, written in 1948, is about the changes in South Africa after Black South African tribes were largely broken up and many people moved to the cities. The characters represent...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Stephen Kumalo is at first glance a rather simple man. He is a minister among his people, the Zulu, and totally unfamiliar with the city and the way of life that is so different from the one he...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
In this novel, the destruction of tribal life creates a large problem in South America. The tight tribal communities, the loss of respect for the chief, and the lost traditions and rituals are...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Teachers often utilize historical fiction to help their students transcend their daily challenges, explore differences within a foreign, cultural context, and increase their self-awareness. In...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Only Alan Paton could really explain his reasons for the rather abrupt break in his narrative represented by Chapter Nine, but the author of Cry, The Beloved Country died in 1988. We can,...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
In Cry, The Beloved Country, Kumalo is grieved when he finds out that it was his son Absalom who was responsible for Arthur Jarvis' death. Absalom tells the court that he was afraid when he fired...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
In the novel 'Cry The Beloved Country' one of the biggest problems facing the population of the troubled country of South Africa is economic inequality. South Africa is a country of fertile soils,...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
The quotation in this question comes from Chapter 11, which indicates a shift in the novel as the narrator urges the reader not to focus on the lovely African landscape and beautiful nature that it...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
One of the most important quotations from this excellent novel comes from the final words written by Arthur Jarvis and which are read by his father in Chapter 21. In this document, Arthur Jarvis...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
The character of Jarvis is shown before Chapter 24 to be a character who is typically white and South African in terms of his prejudices against black South Africans and his view of what is wrong...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country its on that page
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Cry, the Beloved Country
I think that Paton constructs his settings in a very complex manner. Certainly, Johannesburg is shown to be an urban setting where there is much in way of moral depravity. It is a setting that is...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
The reality that Paton constructs through location is fairly profound. On one hand, there is the cultural fragmentation of Ndotsheni. Kumalo recognizes that many of his tribe's people are leaving...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
I think that Foster's analysis applies to the idea that geography can be used by an author to reflect different elements of plot or characterization. In his own language, a place is not just a...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
One major theme in the novel is man's interaction with nature. The land described in Cry, the Beloved Country is negatively affected by the gold mining industry, which is representative of greed....
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton was an activist from his early years at university to his founding work as the principal at Johannesburg's Diepkloof Reformatory for African boys. He was moved and concerned about what...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
the most ironic thing about Aurthurs death was when Absalom was robbing his house Athur was working on his paper and the last thing that was written was allow me a second ot sure if that was...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Are you asking me to select one of those options? To be honest, I think that all of those five options are very relevant to the last book, as we see the precarious future that South Africa faces...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
In this novel it is very clear from the start that "all roads lead to Johannesburg." Unfortunately, it is not a very easy road to travel and the final destination ends up being a misfortune to...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
You might find it useful to analyse Chapter 12 of this incredible novel, and in particular the way in which it presents us with the huge maelstrom of different ideas about what should be done in...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Likely the biggest opportunity that was offered to young people in Johannesburg was that of working in the mines and having access to things that were so rare in the countryside such as...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
The major difference between James and Arthur at the beginning of the story lies in how they view the native population. James was a very liberal man who felt very strongly that the underlying...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
There is a powerful discussion of segregation in the novel, particularly because it is generally viewed through the character's eyes rather than simply discussed. But along with those visions of...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
An important aspect of the way that the rural/urban divide is presented in this amazing novel is the way that both settings are linked to the overwhelming theme of inequality and the vicious cycle...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
This is an interesting question to consider, because in some ways the novel seems to offer little hope for social justice compared to the many different examples that we are given of racial...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
is this bradley rogers?-this is pat and your definetly getting an f on this assignment
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Cry, the Beloved Country
I think that one reason that Paton's work is so effective is because it speaks to the enfranchisement that the White community in South Africa has gained as a result of Apartheid. This entrenched...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Stephen faces the reality that localities can mar the lives of their inhabitants as surely as any negligent family member can do. This injustice is what he must learn to live with. James faces the...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
It seems to me that the basis for the class discussion is going to lie in how the issue of moral transformation presents itself in Paton's work. I think that the spiritual awakening lies in how...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter Thirteen of this amazing book presents us with Kumalo's feelings as he accompanies Msimangu to Ezenzeleni, where the blind are cared for. As he is left by himself to contemplate a beautiful...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
This is an interesting topic because while the settings are completely different (Southern United States vs. South Africa) the themes have much in common. Both novels ultimately center around a...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
I think the clearest example of a character who experiences an epiphany is in Chapter Thirteen, when Kumalo goes to Ezenzeleni with Msimangu and is given time to think, reflect and take stock of...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
This is actually rather a tragic realisation in the novel. Kumalo, having never left his tribe and the land of his tribe before, experiences an incredibly bewildering and shocking reality as he...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
The answer to this question can be found in Chapter Eight of this excellent novel. Msimangu and Kumalo have been just been persuaded to observe the boycott of transport, in spite of the distance...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
I would argue that Johannesburg actually operates as more of a symbol than a metaphor. Throughout the novel, in the way that both Kumalo and Arthur Jarvis travel to Johannesburg, it seems to...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Absalom, a cousin, and a friend were attempting to rob Arthur Jarvis, and unfortunately, Absalom was carrying a gun for protection. When Jarvis returned home unexpectedly, Absalom shot and killed...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
There are all kinds of moments of insight, large and small, in the first book of this novel. As Stephen travels around Johannesburg and meets new people, he is constantly struck by new thoughts of...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Lots of questions here. Well, I think as represented in the character of Kumalo, Paton is against the urbanisation that caused so many to leave their tribal homes in the countryside and go to the...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
With all due respect, you need to be very careful with this question. Actually, this novel was written and based before the policy of apartheid was introduced, so we need to remember the historical...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
This is a fascinating question. Paton, as a white South African himself, wrote this novel to express his fear and concern about what was happening in his country and how he saw the racial divide...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
This is a fascinating question. The part of the story you relate occurs in Chapter 32, when Jarvis inquires of Kumalo if there is mercy for Absalom. However, when I first read this question I...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Chapter 13 when Kumalo accompanies his friend, Msimangu, to Ezenzeleni, the colony for the blind where whites work and help blacks who are blind or are going blind, is a turning point for Kumalo in...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
When we think about the style of a given author and how we can talk about it, you might like to think about the kind of vocabulary he uses and the way he writes. Is the level of vocabulary complex?...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Kumalo is reunited with his sister, Gertrude, and her son, in Chapter 6 of this novel that is focussed on pre-apartheid South Africa. When he comes to where Gertrude is working, it is clear that...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Absalom is uncomfortable at his first reunion with his father. He stands before Kumalo "unhappy, there is no gladness in his eyes. He twists his head from side to side, as though the loose...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Lots of questions here - I think you will find that you are only allowed to ask one. However, the author Paton deliberately shows that Jarvis senior is very old fashioned and traditional in terms...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
An archetype is a symbol that is representative of all human experience and is embedded in what Carl Jung calls the collective conscious, which is the shared experience of a race or culture or of...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Throughout this novel, the settings seem to mirror the characters and the tribe. The decay of the land parallels the decay of tribal life. The business and chaos of the city parallels the...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
This is an excellent question. Of course, when we refer to tone, we think about the attitude of the author towards his subject matter. What is distinctive about this novel is the simplicity of its...
