![]() Nothing was done to save it and it was gradually being eaten up until Arthur's father, Mr Jarvis, read his son's articles and realised how a part of the general problem he was how his own actions contributed in an indirect way to his son's death for he himself had acquired huge hectares of land in Ndotsheni and through his actions the land has become desolate and unproductive leading the young Absalom seeking better livelihood elsewhere, leading to the death of his son, Arthur, who had also gone to work in Johannesburg. He wrote Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948, while he was the principal of Diepkloof. For the land was unproductive and desolate. Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, worked in such a reformatory from 1935 to 1949. The village of Ndotsheni, where the Kumalos came from, was perhaps created as a metaphor or symbol for the life of natives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the novel exposes the immorality that has gripped the society, the dual economies that were coming up as a direct result of strategic discrimination, it also portends hope, that the sun would pour down on the earth. Save The Beloved Country by Alan Paton SIGNED COPY in the Africana category was listed for R500.00 on 1 Mar at 19:01 by lastchancebooks in Durban. And such beautiful poetic lines are scattered in this novel. ![]()
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