Bypassing The Truth About Reality
Often authors in literature tend to avoid situations in everyday life which portray controversial issues. Many authors avoid the reality and truth about what is really taking place in the world, because it’s frightening for many people to cope with the truth. Because in most cases, the truth hurts. In the essays “Notes of a Native Son” and “Here be Dragons” Baldwin allows the reader the opportunity to actually view what problems society is facing among its people. Baldwin’s views are influenced by how, he himself was depicted on for being a black homosexual. In his writings, he displays how people of “normal” status view others who are different, in a freakish and negative way. ...
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father was definitely a mean man, full of hatred and animosity towards everyone, especially whites. His blackness had been the cause of much humiliation in his life, which fixed cynical boundaries. “In my mind’s eye I could see him, sitting at the window, locked up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children who had betrayed him, too, by reaching toward the world who had despised him”(58). “Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law”(71). And in Baldwin’s father’s case it never failed to destroy him either.
Also in “Notes of a Native Son”, Baldwin describes his own experience with this “dread, chronic disease” of the victim. “There is not a Negro alive who does not have this range in his blood-one has the choice, merely, of living with it consciously or surrendering to it. This is a message to society that if one is conscious of the disease, or hatred, then they have the ...
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therefore, may make his/her in side shows or brothels, whereas the merely androgynous are running banks or filling stations or maternity wards, churches, armies or countries”(278). Hermaphrodites and Androgynous people are very similar and yet looked upon as being one freakish, and the other normal. Baldwin points out “The American ideal, then, of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity”(279). “This ideal has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white”(279). This means that if the American boy didn’t grow up into the ideal of masculinity, then he would be looked at as ...
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