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Essay Archive - Cry, the Beloved Country: John and Stephen
Cry, the Beloved Country: John and Stephen
Psychologists often battle on the idea of "Nature vs. Nurture", or
the idea that people's character are decided by either genetic inheritance
or their surroundings. In Cry, the Beloved Country, two brothers, John and
Stephen Kumalo, are shown to have distinctly different values, although
they are of the same family. Alan Paton, through his juxtaposition of John
Kumalo and Stephen Kumalo, provides a correlation between a person's
environment and a person's character.
John Kumalo, a shopkeeper and politician, shares few
characteristics in common....
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