Cry, The Beloved Country: John And Stephen
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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 ....
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.... showing his concern for money and political influence over his
own homeland. Msimangu describes John as having "not enough courage, for
he would surely be sent to prison"(39), showing his view that while John
may speak for a cause, he will not go as far as to be put in jail for it.
Later, the narrator of the story says:
There are some men who long for martyrdom, there are those who know
that to go to prison would bring greatness to them, these are those who
would go to prison not ca ....
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