Cry, the beloved country questions you dont have to answer them all, any is appreciated! 1. one voice in chapter 23 suggests that, with the money from the mines, a second johannesburg might be built. however, chapter 23 concludes with a different voice. this voice states, “no second johannesburg is needed upon the earth. one is enough.” why is there no need for a second johannesburg? 2. the reports after the miners strike are that “all is quiet.” yet alan paton ends this chapter with a memorable passage. read this passage and explain what it means in relation to south africa and the issues that inspired the miners to strike. 3. what does james jarvis do as a result of what kumalo tells the boy? how do these actions demonstrate james jarvis’s increasing understanding of his son? 4. read the final passage of the book again below. what does the dawn symbolize? what does the final sentence suggest?

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1 This suggests that the problems in Johannesburg are not local and specific only to this large urban area, but exist elsewhere. More importantly, Paton suggests that these problems will continue to increase as urbanization continues in South Africa unless the changes he suggests are implemented.

2  The miners are unsatisfied with the working conditions, including the separation from their families and the unfair distribution of wealth from the mines. After the narrative voice says that all is quiet another voice retorts that only fools are quiet. This makes an interesting contrast with John Kumalo with his powerful voice, but lack of action and Arthur Jarvis and his eloquent letters. Both of these men use words but do not follow the words with action. Kumalo out of fear and Jarvis due to his untimely death. Paton could be making the point that words, regardless of how eloquently spoken or written, may begin change, but only action will ultimately bring about that change.

3  Jarvis provides milk to the children of the village. Jarvis begins to realize the predicament of the natives and how that predicament really involves all of South Africa, white and black. He realizes,like his son, that everyone must work together and that the native population must be educated, one of his son's goals.

4   The novel thus ends on a note of hope: Kumalo awakes from a both a literal and a metaphorical darkness into dawn. Therefore, while Paton ends the novel with the question of when Africa itself will emerge from its metaphorical darkness, there is nevertheless the assumption that the emergence into a dawn is inevitable. The question of when this emergence from darkness will occur is the only question that Paton can now pose.