In six pages this report examines how the environment of Harlem defines the individual in these works by James Baldwin. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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is always some form of dichotomy that takes place in terms of how one character reacts to different surroundings compared to another. A taxi driver from Manhattan may be unnerved
by the silence of the mountains while somebody who lives in the mountains, miles from any town will be overwhelmed by the canyons of New York. Even children are told
stories about the differences between the city mouse and the country mouse. The point behind all such stories is how very different people develop based on their experiences and their
surroundings. James Baldwin (1924-1987) used the concept in his stories and essays about the oppression of African Americans throughout the 20th century. Not only were his characters "out of
place" because of the color of their skin, they were often transported from their birthplace or places that they felt the most comfortable in order to seek out opportunity elsewhere.
And even when they remained in a world they knew, they could deviate from a seemingly similar path in ways to cause as divergent of outcomes as two brothers in
which one is a schoolteacher and the other is a drug dealer. In "Another Country," a musician seeks out a world he once knew and was in which he was
once a full-fledged participant. "Sonnys Blues" In "Sonnys Blues" (1957), Baldwin tells a story of two brothers, Sonny and the unnamed narrator who is his brother that the reader understands
is a teacher. They share a past but do not share the present in any meaningful way. The narrator is going to get Sonny since Sonny has been arrested in
a drug raid for possessing and selling heroin. As the narrator tells it, "It was not to be believed and I kept telling myself that, as I walked from the