Comparing the Land To the Families

In Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton compares Kumalo to the land. He does this by showing us how much the people and miss him when he came back and what was happening. For example the children dying, "They die, my child, he said. Some of them are dying now" (270) This shows how when he left the other Umfundisi didn't take care of them there and how they land was horrible when he wasn't there. The parallel between Kumalo and  the land is that wherever Kumalo goes the place he just left turns bad, and nothing goes right and he is kinda a mess too. But when he gets back everything is getting better including the land.