Cry, the Beloved Country

On chapter 13 What impressed Kumalo with the blind school?

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Kumalo finds Ezenzeleni great, for the blind had eyes given to them and made things that he could never make such as baskets. During the visit to Ezenzeleni, Paton compares the state of Stephen Kumalo through the chapter to the blind at Ezenzeleni. Kumalo enters Ezenzeleni metaphorically blind, but leaves the area with a newfound vision. Paton imbues this with intense Biblical imagery, the most explicit of this contained in Msimangu's sermon, which is in many ways the impetus for Kumalo's conversion. Like numerous Biblical figures, Kumalo is redeemed by suffering and receives a new and greater vision from it.

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