Stranger In The Village Analysis

“I would probably be a “sight”for the village”. James Baldwin in his story “Stranger in the villages” contrasts his experience as a black man in the village with his experience as a black man in United States. During his journey, he faces with odd reaction of villagers as a stranger. Plato, The Allegory of the cave illustrates some prisoners that are chained in the cave and they could just see the wall in front of them that people are walking there. They wouldn’t able to turn their head and look around. Jumpa Lahiri in her story “This Blessed House” describes a newlyweds, Twinkle and Sanjeev, that are moving in to a new house. They find Christian icons everywhere. Twinkle tends to keep all the religious icons that is related to first owner …show more content…
Baldwin describes a small town in Switzerland that he visits and faces with different attitudes in compare with America. He feels like a stranger. When he arrives in the small swiss village, all the villagers are shocked to see him. They look at him like an animal. The story pictures how villagers would touch his hair and how they would try to rub the black off his skin. The reason is they are unaware of black history in America, and African-American element is non-existent in Europe. Baldwin explains that the villagers are not unkind deliberately; their sin is just lack of knowledge about history of black …show more content…
Referring to American history, whites are supremacy in the world and they have been the creators of civilization. James Baldwin quoted “the west that has been “buying” African natives for centuries”. It refers to history of black men who were slave and whites have senior over blacks. White ones always dictated to Black ones understanding the reality is painful and people prefer to stay on their shadows rather than reality.Plato, The Allegory of the cave is another example of insightful attempts to explain the nature of reality. The cave represents the state of most hymen beings and the tale of a dramatic exit from the cave is the source of true understanding. It explains the theory of form. The all things that we can see, touch, hear and smell is really just half-seen pictures of the reality of the forms. Reality is beyond physical sense. The story is a dialogue between Socrates and Glucon to imagine a cave. The prisoners are kept in the cave, they have been there since childhood, legs and necks are chained and they are forced to look at a wall in front of them. On the wall puppeteers are walking and carrying objects in the shape of human and animal figures. They presumed the images to be real because they couldn’t move and understand what is actually real. In the middle of the story, the prisoner got free. At the first, the light of the sun would be more brilliant but when his eyes adjusted, he can