Writing In James Baldwin's Notes Of A Native Son

Writing has not been one of my best skills in life. If I can get out of writing, I will. When writing long research papers, I did not feel inspired to write it and I will do the bare minimum. When it came to the last couple of years and we can choose our topic of desire while writing essays, I became more involved. The changes that I have had in the last couple of years have turned my writing career in a positive direction. Every writer has a different writing pattern; this is their identity. An identity is defined as “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.” Every writer has an identity that makes them a unique writer. For example, Dr. Seuss uses a lot of rhymes and word play while Rose uses structural parallelism to get her point down. Thus saying, in today’s society students are taught the rights and wrongs of writing. They are given topics and certain ways to write a paper, and they are told rules they shall not break or else a sentence or spelling might be considered wrong. This sometimes makes the job harder for student because they have to think about this all at once while writing a paper they probably did not want to do in the first place. A lot of the professional writers break these rules that we are …show more content…
In James Baldwin’s essay “Notes of a Native Son,” Baldwin shows both sides of the story. Baldwin starts out talking about his father and all the bad stuff he used to do, and how when he died Baldwin felt good. Once at the funeral his mind changed and he felt sad that the man in the coffin was his father. Baldwin started thinking of the good times that he had with his father and “the imitation made my heart free of hatred and despair” (Baldwin 70). Everything will have two sides to a story and this related to my writing. Since I am scared to get a bad grade I check it so many times, and I accept this. When I get the bad grade papers back I despair, but I will forgive myself and have a heart free of