cry, the beloved country

Cry, the Beloved Country Cry, the Beloved Country is Alan Paton’s beautiful and powerful novel of a revalation in an the life of an old South African Zulu minister, brought on by his terrible trip to the sordid city of Johannesburg. In this paper I will analyze and discuss several characters: Stephen Kumalo, the protagonist, James Jarvis, and John Kumalo, comparing the latter two. 1 Stephen Kumalo, is a native priest in the small village …

…faith, hope, perseverance, and lessons about how humans interact.2 This book has inspired thousands since it’s arrival in 1948, when it could not be published in Paton’s own South Africa, because the book’s message was so powerful. It has even inspired a Miramax film starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel of everlasting relevance, and is sure to be teaching the same lessons centuries from now.