Question

Which key words in Notes of a Native Son does Baldwin use to convey the oppressive condition of his father’s life due to racial prejudice?
bitter, pride, rage, cruel

buried, weight, tension, bleak

riots, apocalypse, anarchy, slavery

energy, heart, education, landscape

Answer 1

Before answering the question, it is convenient to mention that James Baldwin was a Black writer in the decade of the 50s and even though there were other Negro Writers in the literary world, they all suffered from racisms and social prosecution, the novel “Notes of a native Son” is close to an autobiography assembled from essays James Baldwin had written. In the novel the author intends to depict the hatred black people had to suffer at that time and it is overtly presented in the excerpt below, when the author mentions that: “…the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us.”

In his novel “Notes of a native Son” Baldwin uses the key words:buried, weight, tension, bleak to convey the oppressive condition of his father’s life due to racial prejudice.