Cry The Beloved Country
People in this world are very similar to each other but they also have their differences. Many people are of the same ethnicity or culture; they practice the same religion, and even have the same pastimes and enjoy the same activities. Although we are all alike in many ways, no matter how alike you are there will always be differences. In the book Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis are two different people and although they live in the same village they come from two extremely different worlds, and end up meeting in the middle. Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis are two different people. Kumalo is a poor black preacher from the valley of the South African village of Ndotsheni. While looking for his sister in
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Over the course of the book Kumalo and Jarvis both lose loved ones. Kumalo's son is killed because he murdered Arthur Jarvis and his sister leaves to join a convent. Jarvis also loses his son, Arthur, and his wife dies after an illness. Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis are also very generous men. Kumalo always gives whatever he has to people who are in need. Near the end of the book Jarvis came around and gave the children of Ndotsheni milk, "There outside the door was the milk, in shining cans in the cart. This milk is for small children only, for those who are not yet at school... You would surely have a message for uJarvis umfundisi? And Kumalo stuttered and stammered, and at last pointed his hand up at the sky. And the man said, Tixo will bless him, and Kumalo nodded" (271-272). Jarvis also started plans to build a church, "These things we did in memory of our beloved son. It was one of her last wishes that a new church should be built in Ndotsheni and I shall come to discuss it will you. Yours truly, James Jarvis" (296). Kumalo and Jarvis also both work to help Ndotsheni through the drought, "There is ploughing in Ndotsheni, and indeed on all the farms around it. But the plouging goes slowly, because the young demonstrator, and behind him the chief, tell the men they must no longer go up and down. They throw up walls of earth, and plough round the hills, so that the fields look no longer as they used to look in the old days of plouging"
Over the course of the book Kumalo and Jarvis both lose loved ones. Kumalo's son is killed because he murdered Arthur Jarvis and his sister leaves to join a convent. Jarvis also loses his son, Arthur, and his wife dies after an illness. Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis are also very generous men. Kumalo always gives whatever he has to people who are in need. Near the end of the book Jarvis came around and gave the children of Ndotsheni milk, "There outside the door was the milk, in shining cans in the cart. This milk is for small children only, for those who are not yet at school... You would surely have a message for uJarvis umfundisi? And Kumalo stuttered and stammered, and at last pointed his hand up at the sky. And the man said, Tixo will bless him, and Kumalo nodded" (271-272). Jarvis also started plans to build a church, "These things we did in memory of our beloved son. It was one of her last wishes that a new church should be built in Ndotsheni and I shall come to discuss it will you. Yours truly, James Jarvis" (296). Kumalo and Jarvis also both work to help Ndotsheni through the drought, "There is ploughing in Ndotsheni, and indeed on all the farms around it. But the plouging goes slowly, because the young demonstrator, and behind him the chief, tell the men they must no longer go up and down. They throw up walls of earth, and plough round the hills, so that the fields look no longer as they used to look in the old days of plouging"