Summary of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I have never seen two babies who looked or sounded remotely alike. They were each an extraordinary event, and I have never seen two newborns who were so different from each other.
#2 The youngest son of the New Orleans branch of the family - family here is used loosely and has to be. We knew almost nothing about this branch, which knew nothing about us. Daddy, the great good friend of the Great God Almighty, had simply fled the South.
#3 After the march, I began to think about my life and the people I had met. I began to wonder if the people in power really cared about the people they were supposed to serve.
#4 The fact that I had made it, that I could sign a check anywhere in the world, meant that I had betrayed the people who had produced me. I could never live up to their expectations of me.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Personal Memoirs

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822564459
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on James Baldwin's No Name in the Street
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have never seen two babies who looked or sounded remotely alike. They were each an extraordinary event, and I have never seen two newborns who were so different from each other.

#2

The youngest son of the New Orleans branch of the family - family here is used loosely and has to be. We knew almost nothing about this branch, which knew nothing about us. Daddy, the great good friend of the Great God Almighty, had simply fled the South.

#3

After the march, I began to think about my life and the people I had met. I began to wonder if the people in power really cared about the people they were supposed to serve.

#4

The fact that I had made it, that I could sign a check anywhere in the world, meant that I had betrayed the people who had produced me. I could never live up to their expectations of me.

#5

I had not seen this friend - who could no longer be called a friend - in many years. I was brighter than he was, and I had nothing to say to him. I was guilty because I had nothing to offer him, and I knew it.

#6

I had to hire a car to take me to the house, and the driver was a white man. I was no longer the person my friend and his family had known and loved, and I was acutely aware of it.

#7

I always think that it is a terrible thing to happen to a man, especially in his own house, and I am always terribly embarrassed for the man to whom it happens. I am always humiliated for the man who allows it to happen.

#8

I had a friend who was involved with the anti-poverty program, and he seemed completely unaffected by the war or the school battle. I was shocked that he would defend this particular racist folly for his job at the post office.

#9

I left home in 1942, and returned in 1946 to do a photo shoot with a white photographer. I had planned to marry, but then realized that I couldn’t or shouldn’t. I threw my wedding rings into the Hudson River and left New York for Paris.

#10

When you fall in love, you see the world differently than you did before. You are both stronger and more vulnerable, free and bound. Free because you have a home now, and bound because you have a mystery to protect.