The blog except from "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin: atomyther's iets and songs, which I had decided were meaningless, were
wat before me at his death like empty bottles, waiting to hold the meaning
which wouloive them for me. This was his legacy: nothing is ever escaped.
The memorable moming I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes
We who had equally made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my
er would have said this bittemess was folly. It was necessary to hold on to the
Is that mattered the dead man mattered, the new life mattered, blackness and
Wees did not matter to believe that they did was to acquiesce in one's own
Geschen Hatred which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man
who have and this was an immutable law.
Do seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which
Seemed to be opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally
without ancor of life as it is and men as they are in the light of this idea, it goes
without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could
De complacent to the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in
one's own te accept these mustices as commonplace but must fight them with all
Analyze the author's message in this excerpt. How do the structure and style contribute
power in particular, consider its use of societal commentary and figurative
anguage. Be sure to include specific details from the text to support your answer.