A Family’s Misery Misery, poverty, and fear are all illustrated in Alan Paton’s novel, Cry the Beloved Country. The protagonist, Stephen Kumalo, has to go to Johannesburg to find his sister and son. Unable to understand the ways of the people, Stephen Kumalo becomes a stranger in a strange land. What arises goes beyond Kumalo’s imagination. Kumalo’s suffering is unique because he suffers in a black man’s country under white …showed first 75 words of 253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 253 total…people with very little land. As a result, the land is overworked and the people suffer from hunger. Furthermore, the people are leaving because they have nothing left. They have to go away because they have to find other means of survival. As a result, the young people go leaving behind the old people to work the land. Kunalo’s family was a victim of all of these incidents, and the family was broken apart.