Go Tell It On The Mountain Analysis

James Baldwin (1924-1987) is one of the most prominent African America writers during the fifties and sixties of twenty-centuries in the United States. He is an African America and also as a writer, and his footprints spread all over the world, in that case, it makes the most of his works are always exploring the identity of African America. “Go Tell it on the Mountain” is such an example work for identity, as one of the famous classic novel in the African America’s history, it is known as the first work without any ethnic opinions, therefore, the book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of the American literature history field. In this book, there are full experiences of childhood’s life, such as doubt on religious beliefs, …show more content…
They have courage to defeat frustration; and after they gain a stable life. This novel is a encourage and spiritual work, because it dares to bring black’s pain, but this is neither to scare white, nor to gain sympathy from the society. In the novel, John is like Baldwin, because both of them are bastard, and they also have a harsh and a fanatical preacher father. For John, the father is both difficult to please, and also powerless to resist, John suffers a great pain in both body and mind. He desire to gain love and identity, if he wants to find the lost identity back, he had to deal the relations with his father, religious beliefs and the black group, meanwhile, he has to embrace the past and the future with …show more content…
Moreover, Baldwin put forward to a better future or fullness of survival in nowadays society leave an indelible symbol. Personally, I very much agree with Baldwin, whatever for any races or countries, they should all keep self-identity and self-tradition, and then choose the better culture into the future. For all over the world, this problem is also worth to all of us having a good thinking and