Civil Rights Themes In James Baldwin's Stranger In The Village

James Baldwin is an African American writer whom always known as an activist in civil rights causes. In his short story “Stranger in the Village” he brings the point of the fiction on the black search for identity in modern. He also states the fact of how rare it was for Swiss people to see black men in their community. He writes all about his experiences and dramatic events that has shaped his life and caused him to write all about his story while he was in Switzerland.
James Baldwin helped the reader visualize and know the village that he stayed in while he was in Switzerland. He describes the village’s geographical location which was four hours from Milan and three hours from Lausanne. Also in paragraph 2 line 24 James Baldwin gives the reader more to visualize by saying: “The landscape is absolutely forbidding, mountains towering on all four sides, ice and snow as far as the eye can reach”. He also talks about the buildings that were in his village and how most of those stores are closed most of the time. Meanwhile the author makes his point on how the village had a low number of populations, James Baldwin states that the village’s population was six hundred people living there; also he adds in a little fact about that the majority of people were …show more content…
That transition happens in paragraph 10, the author says: “The Rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also absolutely inevitable”. Meanwhile there is rage going on and all of the hatred between the both sides; James Baldwin concludes that racism always have an end to it. He gives an example about how people in the village back then wondered about his hair and all the physical appearances, but now the village people wonder about him, he writes: “ their wonder now exists on another level is reflected in their attitudes and in their