Stephen tells Absalom’s pregnant girlfriend that Absalom is a suspect, and she accedes to his recommendation that she should marry Absalom and move to Ndotsheni. John, meanwhile, tries to defend his own son at Absalom’s expense. Stephen leverages some of his connections in Johannesburg to get a lawyer for Absalom, and tries to hear his story. Absalom confesses, but asserts that two others were party to the crime and that it was an accident. His fear is confirmed when Absalom is found and accused of murder. Msimangu and Stephen discover that the police are searching for Absalom Stephen fears that they suspect his son. He learns that Absalom has been in a reformatory and has impregnated a girl.Īround this time, the city’s newspapers report that a prominent white activist for racial equality named Arthur Jarvis has been killed in his house by a group of armed burglars. As Stephen follows a succession of clues like this, he observes the huge racial and socioeconomic disparities that divide the people of South Africa. John tells them to look in a factory where his son once worked with Absalom. He and Msimangu start by visiting John, who is now a highly prosperous businessman and aspiring politician.
He searches the maze-like city for Absalom. Despite this initial success, Stephen faces further obstacles. He convinces her to return to Ndotsheni with her son. Soon, Stephen finds Gertrude, who has fallen into prostitution and works part time as a liquor saleswoman. Lithebe, a Christian lady who believes that it is her religious duty to aid others. Once in Johannesburg, Stephen is bid welcome by Msimangu, the priest who sent him the initial letter. There, he also hopes to find Absalom, who had gone to the city and never returned. Stephen leaves as fast as he can on an expensive and lengthy trek to the city. Ostensibly, he is needed to help Gertrude, who has fallen ill. Stephen receives a message from another minister asking him to come to Johannesburg. The novel begins in Ndotsheni, in the eastern area of South Africa’s Natal Province.
The book was adapted into several movies and plays in the half-century after its release. Cry, the Beloved Country is known for illuminating a historically underrepresented location and history and discussing the impact of the South African apartheid and fear’s erosive force on society. He travels to Johannesburg to check up on them. Geographically isolated from his brother John, his sister Gertrude, and his son Absalom, Stephen becomes worried when he stops hearing from them. Set in South Africa, it follows a Christian reverend named Stephen Kumalo, who lives in a Zulu village called Ndotsheni. Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 work of historical fiction by Alan Paton.
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