“ The Price of The Ticket “ by Karen Thorsen. It’s a documentary about a great man called James Baldwin. The documentary is about what he went through in his life. James Baldwin was a proud African American novelist, writer, and civil rights activist. Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, He was a smart and knowledgeable man who loved to spend a lot of time reading and writing in the library. When James Baldwin wrote his novels he addressed many social issues and personal issues in his life such as sexuality, race relations, culture, and religion. James Baldwin was a good man, who believed that we all brothers and we all can be better than we are.
The religion used to play a big role in James Baldwin life, as we can see influences of the church …show more content…
Baldwin said he realized at a very young age that he did not have very much as a black person in America. Richard Wright helped Baldwin get financial help to travel to Europe to write. He loved America a lot, that he came back to America after a while to be part of the civil right movement “I love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize he perpetually. He believed that we all have to live together and love each other, not as black and white, but as human beings. He wrote about society, politic and cultural issues. He wrote his experience as black man in Europe and compared it with living in America. He wrote a book call “ The Fire next Time” urges the white American people through it to change for their own good because they cannot live without their black brothers. Baldwin didn’t talk about the struggle for black right, but rather he talked about the human right. He did believe that we are all in this together and that we all must work with each other to make a world that our children can live
The religion used to play a big role in James Baldwin life, as we can see influences of the church …show more content…
Baldwin said he realized at a very young age that he did not have very much as a black person in America. Richard Wright helped Baldwin get financial help to travel to Europe to write. He loved America a lot, that he came back to America after a while to be part of the civil right movement “I love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize he perpetually. He believed that we all have to live together and love each other, not as black and white, but as human beings. He wrote about society, politic and cultural issues. He wrote his experience as black man in Europe and compared it with living in America. He wrote a book call “ The Fire next Time” urges the white American people through it to change for their own good because they cannot live without their black brothers. Baldwin didn’t talk about the struggle for black right, but rather he talked about the human right. He did believe that we are all in this together and that we all must work with each other to make a world that our children can live