The state of being subjected to unjust treatment or control is known as oppression. People believing to be superior than everyone else has been a main cause of such acts. Racial oppression burdens and targets a specific race and can be social, systematic, institutionalized, or internalized. Authors like James Baldwin write to express their feelings towards such oppressive historical conditions. James Baldwin passage “Notes of a Native Son” describes how racial inequalities has affected his personal life and how such oppressors brought about an overpowering rage that consumes and controls him. Baldwin uses life events that he encountered to implement the gradual increase of anger he experiences, while also using repetition, questions and irony as figurative languages in his writing to describe his perspective on the oppressors.
Baldwin emphasizes the relationship with his father before his death as broken. His father died when he was only nineteen years old and before then he …show more content…
Later as he saw his wages being extremely low compared to all others and the incidents of getting kicked out of places made it perfectly clear for Baldwin. He began to wonder why they were being treated as such, why anyone would do that to them for the only reason being the color of their skin, and lastly “…what anyone could possible do, to bring about such unanimous, active, and unbearable vocal hostility.” (p.740). Baldwin asking these questions, allows us to see inside of his mind, see what his thoughts were during that specific time. We get a snapshot of his humanity and pure nature. We get to see the most vulnerable part of a human mind. All the “What If’s” and “Why Us” questions human beings encounter sooner or later in their lives. This allows us to have something in common, the type of questions Baldwin wrote, was most likely to get the point across that we are all the human and all we all should be humane towards each
Baldwin emphasizes the relationship with his father before his death as broken. His father died when he was only nineteen years old and before then he …show more content…
Later as he saw his wages being extremely low compared to all others and the incidents of getting kicked out of places made it perfectly clear for Baldwin. He began to wonder why they were being treated as such, why anyone would do that to them for the only reason being the color of their skin, and lastly “…what anyone could possible do, to bring about such unanimous, active, and unbearable vocal hostility.” (p.740). Baldwin asking these questions, allows us to see inside of his mind, see what his thoughts were during that specific time. We get a snapshot of his humanity and pure nature. We get to see the most vulnerable part of a human mind. All the “What If’s” and “Why Us” questions human beings encounter sooner or later in their lives. This allows us to have something in common, the type of questions Baldwin wrote, was most likely to get the point across that we are all the human and all we all should be humane towards each