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Cry, the Beloved Country – Two Fathers Come Together: This 7-page comparative essay examines Alan Paton’s divergent patriarchs, Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis in Cry, the Beloved Country. The specific events in the novel that ultimately cause them to change are enveloped in the related loss of their sons, their subsequent relationship and the self-revelatory journey each takes while trying to understand the enigmatic behavior of his own child. Bibliography lists 1 source. SNPaton1.doc
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to understand the enigmatic behavior of his own child. Bibliography lists 1 source. SNPaton1.doc Cry, the Beloved Country - Two Fathers Come Together Written
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Patons Cry, the Beloved Country begins as many great stories have begun, with a solitary man taking a long and dangerous journey to a distant land. In this case the
man is an Anglican Zulu priest, Rev. Stephen Kumalo, and his sojourn takes place in white-run Johannesburg in the 1940s. Like a weary prophet taking a biblical journey to
Sodom, Kumalo is seeking out lost members of his family who have left the townships for the lights of the big city. He is looking for his sister Gertrude, who
has become a prostitute; and more importantly, his "lost" son, Absalom who has disappeared into the darkness as surely as the original Absalom of the Old Testament was lost to
King David. The Rev. Stephen Kumalo is the chief figure in the novel, and it is his love for his family that drives him to Johannesburg. With the sum total
of a paltry 14 pounds 6, and with dogged determination, he searches for his family. Once he arrives, the naive Kumalo is immediately robbed, and it isnt until he finds
the enigmatic, but helpful Father Msimangu that he is able to begin the search that will ultimately change his life. The main
plot involves the heartbreaking discovery that son Absalom -- a shy and quiet young man -- has been accused of murdering a white man named Arthur Jarvis. (Ironically,
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