In today's world there are a lot of people who are oblivious to their surroundings. Many of us are careless about things until something good or bad happens to us personally. In the book Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Patton a particular man named James Jarvis is going through this same situation. He goes through a transformation, and try's to contradict the other side of him by paying more attention t the world and …showed first 75 words of 487 total…

…showed last 75 words of 487 total…transformation. The black people- yes the black people also it was the first time he had ever shaken hands with black people" (182.) Stephen Kumalo and Jarvis started talking more often. One day they figured out where they knew each other from. Now you would think that this would distance the two men but it actually brought them closer. Since Jarvis was pretty wealthy he would sometimes supply for Stephen Kumalo and his tribe. "There outside