One in 1949, titled “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” which addressed the “power of revelation” of an author and how their vast reality must take precedence over other things (“James Baldwin,” The Oxford). In a later essay titled, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” this idea is put into effect when he states “where there is no vision the people perish.” He wrote to provide a more “meaningful reality” shown in literary works, but even through all of this urgent and powerful writing, his amazing ability to write is never lost (“James Baldwin,” The
One in 1949, titled “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” which addressed the “power of revelation” of an author and how their vast reality must take precedence over other things (“James Baldwin,” The Oxford). In a later essay titled, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” this idea is put into effect when he states “where there is no vision the people perish.” He wrote to provide a more “meaningful reality” shown in literary works, but even through all of this urgent and powerful writing, his amazing ability to write is never lost (“James Baldwin,” The