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Stephen Kumalo
Stephen Kumalo is a man with an
enormous personality. He can range from being caring to angry in a matter of
pages. Kumalo is very realistic, character wise; by the way his life turns
around even though it is not necessarily for the best. He did not know finding
his son would lead to all of his troubles, but he never backed away.
Kumalo ranges in personalities
enormously, in the book he shows personality traits of happiness, anxiety,
fear, love, care, and faith. He shows fear mainly at the beginning and end of
book one. Some examples of his fear would be when he is getting on the train to go to Johannesburg and when he finds out that Absalom ,his son, killed Arthur Jarvis. Stephen Kumalo makes the remark "And it is too late," when he finds his son, making me feel that he is afraid, scared, and feared for him.
Stephen Kumalo is a very realistic character, he has struggles just like everyone in the world; unlike in other books where the main character has no problems, but a perfect life. Stephen Kumalo starts off having struggles in life, his son, sister, and nephew have all went to Johannesburg looking for someone. Kumalo's family ,that went to Johannesburg, did not write to him, which made things harder on him. Towards the middle of book one we find Kumalo's sister ,Gertrude, in a bad state of living; she is a well known prostitute where she is from. This is bad news to Kumalo considering it is his sister, but more importantly that he is a man of God. Though finding his sister was bad news to him, finding his son was even worse on his mind and faith. When Kumalo found his son he started finding out more and more of what his son had been doing the years he was away from home, which was mainly getting into trouble. All of this not only makes Stephen Kumalo a realistic character ,by how he handled his situations and what his situations were, but also a strong, individual, loving character.
Stephen Kumalo has both positive and negative attributes that make up his personality; his positive attributes are that he is a strong, individual character that knows how to handle the toughest situations that can be thrown at a person. Though he has strong positive attributes he also has negative attributes; such as, his ability to not believe someone good be so bad, or when he started losing his faith over what Absalom did.
Stephen Kumalo has grown a lot as a person throughout his struggles in book one and part of book two. He has grown much in the way he views people, now instead of just seeing them he looks deeper, below the flesh. He does not just look at the person, he looks at the past of the person. Kumalo has grown much in his faith also; by starting to let it slip away to start praying that everything will be okay with Absalom and his sons girlfriend.
Stephen Kumalo is a very realistic character, he has struggles just like everyone in the world; unlike in other books where the main character has no problems, but a perfect life. Stephen Kumalo starts off having struggles in life, his son, sister, and nephew have all went to Johannesburg looking for someone. Kumalo's family ,that went to Johannesburg, did not write to him, which made things harder on him. Towards the middle of book one we find Kumalo's sister ,Gertrude, in a bad state of living; she is a well known prostitute where she is from. This is bad news to Kumalo considering it is his sister, but more importantly that he is a man of God. Though finding his sister was bad news to him, finding his son was even worse on his mind and faith. When Kumalo found his son he started finding out more and more of what his son had been doing the years he was away from home, which was mainly getting into trouble. All of this not only makes Stephen Kumalo a realistic character ,by how he handled his situations and what his situations were, but also a strong, individual, loving character.
Stephen Kumalo has both positive and negative attributes that make up his personality; his positive attributes are that he is a strong, individual character that knows how to handle the toughest situations that can be thrown at a person. Though he has strong positive attributes he also has negative attributes; such as, his ability to not believe someone good be so bad, or when he started losing his faith over what Absalom did.
Stephen Kumalo has grown a lot as a person throughout his struggles in book one and part of book two. He has grown much in the way he views people, now instead of just seeing them he looks deeper, below the flesh. He does not just look at the person, he looks at the past of the person. Kumalo has grown much in his faith also; by starting to let it slip away to start praying that everything will be okay with Absalom and his sons girlfriend.
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