Cry the Beloved Country

In Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country, James Jarvis says to Kumalo, “There is something between you and me, but I don’t know what it is”(180).
The two men are linked in several ways; both come from the town of Ndotsheni and meet in the city of Johannesburg, but the most significant connection results from a tragedy that affects them both: Kumalo’s son, Absalom, kills Arthur Jarvis, James Jarvis’ son, although this connection is unclear to Jarvis at the moment, he says to Kumalo, “...