How Land is Paralled to the Main Characters (Jarvis)
Land is often paralleled to Jarvis in a calm and peaceful way at the beginning of Book II in Cry, The Beloved Country. His land is viewed as a place where there are well tended grass, healthy farms and livestock, and perfect scenery which showed his non-hesitant manner as compared to Kumalo’s situation with more action. Near his land there were hills that were “red and bare” which symbolized problems inching in on Jarvis’s life. For instance, the book shows, “There was no sign of drought there for the grass was fed by the mists, and the breeze blew coolingly on his sweating face. But below the tops the grass was dry, and the hills of Ndotsheni were red and bare, and the farmers on the tops had begun to fear that the desolation of them would eat back, year by year, mile by mile, until they too were overtaken.” (162)
Near the end of the quote the author implies the oppression of other farmers on the land to us. From this, we relate this experience that other farmers face, to Jarvis. We can then foreshadow that, in time, Jarvis will experience something similar that will oppress him. Later in chapter 18 he does experience grief from his son’s death which increases actions in the plot in his part.
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