Cry, the Beloved Country Summary
Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country - Anan Paton - 1948 Introduction South African Alan Paton was forty-three years old when he began writing his first and most famous novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. He wrote i... Read more

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Jn 1946 Alan Paton, director of a South African student reformatory, took an extended leave of absence from his work in order to examine penal institutions in... Read more

Alan Stewart Paton (1903-1988) was a South African writer and liberal leader. His novel Cry, The Beloved Country won him world acclaim for the insights it gave on South Africa's race problem.Alan Stew... Read more

Alan Paton was one of South Africa's best-known novelists, as well as a reputable poet, biographer, politician, prison reformer, and thinker. Following the publication of his first novel, Cry, the Bel... Read more

Critical Essay by Myron Matlaw The emotional impact of Cry, the Beloved Country is achieved, first of all and most consistently, by Paton's stylistic understatement, by his use and reuse of a f... Read more

In the following excerpt, Prescott opines that Cry, the Beloved Country is among the "great novels," praising Paton's artistic treatment of the story's themes. The second m... Read more

Critical Essay by Alfred Kazin Ever since he published "Cry, The Beloved Country," a book which so passionately brought to the attention of the outside world the plight of the bitterly e... Read more

Critical Essay by Dennis Brutus [Alan Paton] started what seems to me almost a new era in South African writing. What is interesting about it is that other people had written not much less competently... Read more

Slumber What naught could quench nor words appease    A beast was there to feast Twas a breeze that sewed the seed        And nurtured it with wings&... Read more

One of the main themes that emerges from reading Alan Paton's, Cry, the Beloved Country, is the importance of tribal life to South Africa because of the identity it gave its people. Through the commu... Read more

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton is a novel about South Africa. Stephen Kumalo receives word that he must visit Johannesburg because his sister, Gertrude, is sick. In Johannesburg he searches ... Read more

Through out Cry, the Beloved Country, the main character, Steven Kumalo, is forever changed by his experiences in the great city of Johannesburg. While in the city he feels the effects of numerous pos... Read more

Oftentimes, when something valuable is lost, one may begin to realize the importance and value of that article. Although what is lost may never be restored, in its absence, there is a tendency for o... Read more

Although set in South Africa, Cry the Beloved Country has themes that have permanent and universal interests. These are themes of crime and punishment, the human cost of power and wealth, and di... Read more

The country and the city life depicted in Alan Paton's novel Cry, The Beloved Country portray two different aspects of life in South Africa in the later half of the 1940's. The country life in the boo... Read more

Cry, The Beloved Country starts out with a father searching for his sister, brother, and son. These three all left their hometown to Johannesburg, where they would all soon change as South Africa lo... Read more

Symbolism is no mere idle fantasy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent to the very texture of human life. Paton shows this is true in his novel of social protest, Cry the Beloved Country, using it ... Read more

There are two types of "happy endings", those of Disney movies, and those of lasting novels. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton is one of those novels. Pastor Kumalo's long journey is one that, de... Read more

"As you said, when people go to Johannesburg, they do not come back. They do not even write, anymore ... they go to Johannesburg, and there they are lost, and no one hears of them at all." (39) In Cr... Read more

Cry, The Beloved Country Book Notes is a free study guide on Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Su... Read more