Cry, the Beloved Country

“Jarvis vs. Kumalo”

A protagonist is the person throughout a story that we, the reader, follow as he solves conflicts. Most novels develop around one protagonist. In the novel Cry, the Beloved Country the story follows two protagonists, a black Zulu priest named Stephen Kumalo, and a white landowner named James Jarvis. Each have their own unique personality, but when put together they resemble the same person. Both live in the small town of Ndotsheni, in South Africa, but James Jarvis lives in the lush part of the city,”…grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.”(pg.33), and Kumalo lives in the barren part of the city, “…they grow red and bare; they cannot hold the rain and mist…”(pg.33). James and Stephen differ in elements of their personality, but their journey through life is parallel to one another.
In the story we are fist introduced to Stephen Kumalo, the black older Zulu priest. He is a poor priest that make...