all if he lives too much. Yes cry, cry, the beloved country"

"Cry The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton. "Cry The Beloved Country" was a magnificent work of art and my words alone would do it an injustice. Its pages echo with the dirge of a battered country that has suffered far to much for far to long.

The book takes you to South Africa, where the land itself is the essence of a man. It as if the mountains, soaring high above the clouds, are the high moments in life, and the valleys are those low and suffering times. Next, you will take a journey to a place called Johannesburg. While reading the pages, begin to envision Johannesburg being a polluted, very unkind, and rushed city. The setting is more of a emotional setting than a physical setting. As I stated it takes place in South Africa, 1946. This is a time where racial discrimination is at an all time high. The black community of this land is trying to break free from the whit

I think that the theme that Paton was trying to get people to see to forgive people for something they have no control over. He shows this when Kumalo goes to Jarvis house to apologize for what his son did. Also, he shows the theme when Jarvis tells Kumalo that he will build him a church. When he decides to build the church it is his way of apologizing to all the black people for his wrong doing.

The only thing that I did not like about the book was some of his wording was a little confusing and I had to read it several times. Also he was a complex writer. I thought that sometimes he took the "round about way" of getting to his point.

e people, but having little success. It is this so called racism that is essential to the setting of the story. Without it, the book would not have as much of an impact as it does.

sons. Jarvis was a key element in the plot because he was almost exactly alike Kumalo.

The story begins, as many great stories have begun, with a solitary man taking a long and dangerous journey to a distant land. The man is an Anglican Zulu priest, Rev. Stephen Kumalo, and the journey is to the white-ran Johannesburg in 1946. Like a weary prophet taking a biblical sojourn 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 mostly, his son Absalom, who has disappeared into the darkness as surely as the original Absalom of the Old Testament was lost to King David. Once he arrives, the nave Kumalo is immediately robbed, and it isnt until he finds the enigmatic but helpful Father Msimangu that he is able to begin his search, a search that will change his life forever.

Mr. James Jarvis was a to-proud land owner that suffered not only for the loss of his son, but also the belated realization

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Approximate Word count = 1266
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)