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Cry the Beloved Country

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Cry, the Beloved Country Chapters 29-36 Why is it significant that Gertrude leaves before everyone goes home? Why do you think she left? Why is religion important to Kumalo? What motivates him to keep faith in Tixo? What do you think Jarvis?s grandson symbolizes? Why is he the way he is? Why is Kumalo so attached to the land of Ndotsheni? Why is Jarvis so set on helping Kumalo save the land? What is unique about the relationship between Kumalo and Jarvis? What does this reveal about their characters? Did you agree more with Kumalo or Napoleon when they debated about ?the white man?s milk?? What made that argument agreeable? Did you notice any changes in Kumalo after his time in Johannesburg? Were they positive or negative? Why do you think these change occurred?

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Alex Wells 10/25/09 2nd Period ?Research on Cry, the Beloved Country Author?s Life He was the founder and president of the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party opposed apartheid and offered a non-racial alternative to government policy. Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, in the east of South Africa. Paton started enjoying reading at an early age reading classics by writers such as Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and Rupert Brooke. Paton went to school at the University of Natal, and after graduation he worked as a teacher at Ixopo High School. Paton?s first wife was Dorrie Francis Lusted, but after she died he remarried to his secretary, Anne Hopkins. In 1935 Paton was appointed Principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory for young offenders.
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