1.James Baldwin is a writer, playwright, and novelist born in 1924. He had an interesting early life as at a young age he was a pastor around the same time that he got interested in reading. Then when he graduated high school he had to hold off on school to help his family. Later he would move twice, the first time to Greenwich Village and then a second time to Paris. Both times so he could focus more on writing. He soon became very well know for writing about race and the black experience in America.
2. The fire next time was published in 1963 which was right in the middle of the civil rights movements. The way he writes this book relates to how black people were still truly suffering from oppression and were finally striving for true freedom. …show more content…
Home- when James baldwin talks about home he says it after talking about a soldier who was in world war two and realizes that even thought he was more free overseas than in America he was still treated harshly. Then when he comes “home” to the place he defended he is being treated lke a subhuman so, what is the point of defending the prinicples of this “home” when you get treated like you don’t belong.
“Trickology”- James Baldwin quotes Elijah Muhammed in saying this. I think that it means all the defenitions of a white world in which what all white people have told black poeple should be taken as truth, but it also becomes a black persons truth, because to oppose this trickology is to oppose what the oppressive system wants you to believe. Denying theses lies would certainly lead to the downfall of that human being.
5.”A certain hope died,a certain respect for white americans faded. One began to pity them or to hate them” I think this is important for his story , because it gives an idea about how most African Americans felt about White Americans during this time. Which i believe is what he was trying to convey with this essay overall that African Americans had given up on trying to understand and accept white