ENG365H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Ambivalence
Document Summary
Go tell it on the mountain, james baldwin. Takes place during the 14th birthday of john grimes in harlem in the thirties. Also uses lots of flashbacks to talk about the lives of john"s parents and aunt. Three main conflicts: father and son, coming-of-age struggle, and religious crisis. John both wants his father"s love and hates his father. John undergoes a religious transformation on the threshing-floor . But this doesn"t earn him his father"s love. John grimes: 14 years old, dealing with his feelings about the church and his (step)father. Gabriel: a hard, religious man who previously lived a very sinful life. Married deborah, who could give him no children. Had an affair with esther and gave birth to a son, royal. Then marries elizabeth, and has a new son, roy. Elizabeth: raised by a strict, religious aunt. Ran away to be with her boyfriend richard, who killed himself. She is pregnant and unwed, and later gives birth to john.
