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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by Alan Paton. Called "the most important novel in South Africa's history," it tells the tale of Father Stephen Kumalo, a poor African priest who leaves his small village to venture into the big city of Johannesburg, where his estranged sister Gertrude and son Absalom moved years before.It has been made into film several times, most recently in 1995 with James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. In 1949, Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson adapted it into the musical Lost in the Stars.
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Bittersweet Ending: Both Kumalo and Jarvis have lost their young adult sons, but Jarvis has a change of heart and helps Kumalo's starving and miserable tribe recover and prosper again, and Kumalo now has a grandson and a daughter in law to live with him.
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The Atoner: Absalom towards the end of his life. Also Msimangu. He entered the priesthood because of guilt over the kind of man he was in his youth.
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And Now for Someone Completely Different
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And Now for Someone Completely Different: The second part of the book focuses on James Jarvis, who had only been very briefly mentioned before.
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Amoral Attorney: Averted. Absalom's lawyer takes the case pro bono because he believes Absalom is telling the truth.
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