After you read this article, you can see that through love, this family has been unified! They have endured hardships together and it has not broken them up because of the love they have for each other. In both the novel ad this article the unifying power of love is family. In the novel, Stephen Kumalo loves his family so much. He goes far from his home in Ndotsheni to the town of Johannesburg which was very different from his hometown. He looked for and cared after his sister. He found his son and helped him through his trial and hanging. Stephen Kumalo’s love for his son, his family, and his people affected James Jarvis. Arthur Jarvis also showed love for his fellow man and because James Jarvis loved his son he takes time to learn and understand the feelings and thoughts that Arthur had had while he was alive. This changed how James Jarvis viewed life in South Africa. In he end of the novel, the two races in this situation are in a sense “unified”. James Jarvis sent someone to help teach them about farming, he helps plan out a new water source for Ndotsheni, and he provides funding for a new church. These are examples of how the unifying power of love can be found in this novel due to the lives lived by Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis.
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