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Cry the Beloved Country Cry the Beloved Country The novel Cry, the Beloved Country written by “Alan Paton”, takes place in South Africa in 1946, just before the 1948 elections and the onset of apartheid, or the separation of races. ... “Alan Paton” begins Cry, the Beloved Country with a description of the land surrounding Ixopo, the village where the pastor and protagonist Stephen Kumalo lives. ... An assumption that the author makes throughout Cry, the Beloved Country is that numerous actions are significant not in themselves but in what they represent. ... The plot of Cry, the Beloved Country largely concerns the efforts of Stephen Kumalo to reunite his family by bringing back his sister Gertrude and his son Absalom to Ixopo. ... References and allusions to the emancipation movement in the United States abound in Cry, the Beloved Country along with figurative comparisons to the quest for freedom.