Summary Of Stranger In The Village
Reading Journal: Stranger in The Village
James Baldwin expresses very strong feelings throughout the reading. He shows discomfort, anguish, and nostalgic about the indifferences between black and white men. However, he ends with positive and powerful words, changing the setting from the Village in Switzerland to America. He states two comparisons in the lecture which caught my attention. He compares life of black men in the slavery period and life of black men in his period. He also compares how are white men seen by black men, and vice versa. In addition, he mentions the reason that make white men think they have the right to dominate the black men: their creation of the modern world. I would never get to my conclusion without looking to this perspective of James about this issue. In fact, this ideology makes sense. White men were behind the plans of the new world, while black men were captive from the rest of the world in their primitive environments.
It is peculiar the way white people think about James as a wonder of his origin. For instance, when he describes the how they act when they are around him:
“Some thought my hair was the color of tar, that it had the texture of wire, or the …show more content…
They do not mean to be unkind, for the most part, it is about an innocent wonder of something they are not used to see too often. Nevertheless, they can’t help the fact that they recognize themselves in a better position than the black man. I go back to when I mention one of the comparison he makes of how the white man is seen by the black man, and how the black man is seen by the white man: a white man is a conqueror in the black man territory, while the black man is just the servant whose duty is to obey his master. To highlight his ideology, he later says “what the white man imagines the black man to be, the black man is enabled to know who the white man
James Baldwin expresses very strong feelings throughout the reading. He shows discomfort, anguish, and nostalgic about the indifferences between black and white men. However, he ends with positive and powerful words, changing the setting from the Village in Switzerland to America. He states two comparisons in the lecture which caught my attention. He compares life of black men in the slavery period and life of black men in his period. He also compares how are white men seen by black men, and vice versa. In addition, he mentions the reason that make white men think they have the right to dominate the black men: their creation of the modern world. I would never get to my conclusion without looking to this perspective of James about this issue. In fact, this ideology makes sense. White men were behind the plans of the new world, while black men were captive from the rest of the world in their primitive environments.
It is peculiar the way white people think about James as a wonder of his origin. For instance, when he describes the how they act when they are around him:
“Some thought my hair was the color of tar, that it had the texture of wire, or the …show more content…
They do not mean to be unkind, for the most part, it is about an innocent wonder of something they are not used to see too often. Nevertheless, they can’t help the fact that they recognize themselves in a better position than the black man. I go back to when I mention one of the comparison he makes of how the white man is seen by the black man, and how the black man is seen by the white man: a white man is a conqueror in the black man territory, while the black man is just the servant whose duty is to obey his master. To highlight his ideology, he later says “what the white man imagines the black man to be, the black man is enabled to know who the white man