Brief Summary Of Chapters In Cry Of The Sun, By James Baldwin

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Analyze – Emotions such as anger, hatred are somethings we can control but be hold on to it until we separate ourselves from them by creating a barrier. But once we let go that emotions, we truly feel the pain within our hearts.

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Analyze – Every person differ from each other, so does their experiences and once hurt, it’s hard to heal him in a common way because he was hurt in a certain way

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Analyze – Baldwin tries to say that everyone is equal, it is the society who discriminated the Negroes by their skin color and says that they are not Americans. Which describes the mentality of the people therefore, it is called “… in their darkness of our mind.”

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Analyze – Baldwin says, that one should go out in the world experience new things with no greed or expectation to gain or lose anything, to place where you

The laughter was not in an offensive way at him as a black man, but at him as a foreigner.
10. (pp. 116-2) “Equal in Paris” – “This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain of the living is not real”
Analyze – He refers to the laughter of the policemen that laughed at him for being in jail because of a bedsheet. And that laughter made him remember the laughter he heard at his home without judging him, and without any pain.
11. (pp.66-3) “Notes of a Native son” – “In my mind’s eye I could see him, sitting at the window, locked up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children who had betrayed him, too, by reaching towards the world which had despised him.”
Analyze – Here Baldwin talks about his father in his last moments of his life, his father was scared of everyone around him, his wife and his children too. He thought they wanted to poison him, therefore he didn’t talk to anyone in his last moments.