Land Paralleling Family- Cry,...

Looking through out the book I see that the land is paralleling Kumalos family. It is doing so by represtenting how Kumalos family is falling apart and broken how nothing is able to keep them together. Kumalo went to Johannesburg to bring back his sister and her son and his own son. The only people he could bring back are the ones he's not really related to, his grandson and his daughter-in-law. The soil represents this with this qoute from the noval, "They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil cannot keep them any more".