Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown And Rebuilding Of South African Society

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Term Paper Title	Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown And Rebuilding Of South African Society
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Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown and Rebuilding of South African Society

Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown and Rebuilding of South African Society

                “...what God has not done for South Africa
                man must do.”  pg. 25

     In the book, Cry, the Beloved Country, written by Alan Paton, some major
conflicts follow the story from beginning to end.  Two of these conflicts would
be as follows; first, the breakdown of the ever so old and respected tribe; and
second, the power of love and compassion and how that it can rebuild broken
relationships.  This story gives the reader the perfect perspective in learning
about the injustices that have taken place in South Africa, and it gives us a
sense of the trials and hardships the blacks went through then.  Cry, is a story
about a Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and how he sets out to bring his family back
together.  While he sets out about doing this he realizes that his family is
completely in the shambles and his family has strayed from the church and tribal
traditions.  Kumalo eventually learns to deal with this and while he is doing
this, he makes a friend, James Jarvis, that changes the way he has looked on
life.
     The tribal breakdown starts to show in book I, with the land that the
tribe must use and how the people have used up the natural resources that used
to lay there.  The whites pushed them out of where they used to reside where the
land is so good that it could be even referred to as “holy, being even as it
came from the Creator.” (pg. 3).  In the rural areas such as this the decay
comes as a result of making the blacks live in confined areas where the land is
so bad it can't be farmed any more, and the taking of the strong males out of
these areas to go work in the mines were things are unsafe and people rarely
return.  Because of this, the people leave the tribe to go on the roads to
travel to Johannesburg, because “All roads lead to Johannesburg.” (pg. 10).
     As Kumalo arrives in Johannesburg he finally realizes what a problem he
has stepped into.  He realizes that nobody in his family, neither brothers,
sisters, sons and daughters, even cousins, have any moral ties with each other
anymore.  He sees his brother get caught up in worldly beliefs, such as: fame,
money, power, greed and lying.  He also sees his sister and his son living in a
horrible life of crime and sin.  Kumalo even starts to lose hope for his son, he
states that  “I can do nothing here, let us go.” (pg....

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