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Cry Beloved Country

Durst 10 - 2011

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Study the Quotes from your green movie handout. Be able to explain them.
The person Kumalo brings home with him: His sister's son.
What Absalom says in his letter: that if he could come home, he never would have left.
What hopeful, yet ironic, event occurred when Absalom was executed? His child was born.
Where Kumalo goes on the 15th day (when Absalom is executed): climbs the mountain
What James Jarvis offers to do for Kumalo's church: pay for/build a new church with a memorial with his son Arthur Jarvis's name on it.
Describe the efforts of Absalom's lawyer: good lawyer who tried hard to help Absalom for free
The setting of the story: South Africa, 1940's, before Apartheid
Kumalo travels to a house to check on the daughter of a man from his village. What is ironic about this visit? It's the same house as the house where the Jarvis family is staying.
What Kumalo's minister friend does before he leaves: Gives Kumalo all his $ - he is giving up all worldly possessions.
Who says this quote, when: "I understand what I didn't understand. There is no anger in me." Jarvis says this to Kumalo when Kumalo discloses his identity.
"There is fear in the land and fear in the hearts of all who live there and fears put an end to understanding and the need to understand. So how shall we fashion such a land when there is fear in the heart? Cry the beloved country for the unborn child..." know this quote made by Kumalo. Look on your handout for the complete quote. Explain why it's significant.
"Who knows for what we live, struggle, and die. Who knows what keeps us living and struggling, while all things break about us. Who knows why the warm flesh of child is such comfort when one's own child is lost. Wise men write books... Know this quote made by Kumalo at the end of the story/film. Look it up in your handout for the complete quote. Explain why it's significant.
The author of the book from which the movie is based: Alan Paton: a white South African who was a principle for 13 years of a reformatory.
Stephen Kumalo is a priest in a small Zulu village.
The wealthy white farmer: James Jarvis
started a boys club for black South Africans and was James Jarvis's son: Arthur Jarvis
Stephen Kumalo's son who killed Arthur Jarvis: Absalom Kumalo
Why does Kumalo go into the city? He receives a letter from his sick sister.
Explain why the bus boycott is happening? whites want to raise bus fares
"it is not native crime which is the problem, but white crime-what sort of memorial do we deserve? We call ourselves Christian people. When posterity come to judge us, it will consign us to the sewers of history as tyrant oppressors, criminals..." Written by Arthur Jarvis before he is killed...be able to explain his reasoning.
Apartheid lawas are similar what laws that were once enforced in the US? Jim Crow laws
4 examples from the film of Johannesburg as a symbol of evil: man deceived Kumalo, claiming he'd buy a bus ticket...there are prostitutes....John Kumalo doesn't support the church...sister can't find her husband...(others that you can think of on your own)
Name the person being described: "...gave to us himself, his heart, his belief in a better future." Arthur Jarvis
Name the person being described: "He's the only TRULY GOOD MAN I've ever met." Stephen Kumalo
Which character "had a brightness in him..." Arthur Jarvis
Name the character being described: a politician who doesn't give any money to the church. He is Stephen Kumalo's brother. John Kumalo
The reason Absalom shot Arthur Jarvis: Because he was afraid. He did not intend to kill Arthur.
Created by: maplelakesped
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