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The book Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin is about a very religious family trying to navigate the racial societal codes of the time.  This novel describes the course of the fourteenth birthday of John Grimes in Harlem, 1935. Baldwin also uses extended flashback episodes to recount the lives of John’s parents and aunt and to link this urban boy in the North to his slave grandmother in an earlier South. The first section follows John’s thoughts, the second mostly his aunt’s, the third his father’s, the fourth his mother’s, and the fifth again mostly John’s.  In…

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by johannadiehl
Annotated Bibliographies

Annotated Bibliography for Go Tell It on the Mountain

Introduction  I wasn’t truly sure what to expect from this course after the first day of class. I was anxious about the prospect of working within a group all semester and the absence of an absolute interpretation. I felt rather lost and was unsure if I would be able to perform as well as I had in my previous writing courses. Despite this, I wanted to try my hardest to be open to the lessons this course had to offer. I wanted to try to reach the summit of this particular mountain. One aspect of the class that did excite…

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by Rhys Ancheta
Annotated Bibliographies

Annotated Bibliography- The Princess Bride

Introduction At the beginning of this semester, this course seemed really intimidating. While I have a passion for reading and literature, and consider myself a good close reader, after the first day of class I didn’t know what to expect. But when we actually got into it, I found myself really enjoying the books we read. The book I chose, The Princess Bride, was a book that I was so excited to read. I loved the movie as a kid and re-reading it gave me this incredible nostalgic feeling. And while each assignment posed its own challenges, I was ready…

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by sophiemarie2021
Go Tell It on the Mountain

Codes of Go Tell it on the Mountain

By: Anna Keefe In Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin we examine the text in more of an intertextual way.  We then start to see the different cultural and symbolic codes with controlling values.   “The cultural codes provide the means whereby “information” contained in the authoritative texts by a given symbolic order finds its way into novels, poems, and films which perpetuate the order” (Silverman, 274) In the book we learn a lot about the religious elements as a way of the symbolic code.  One instance where we see this is when the expectations of the church…

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  5. Johanna, I do also think that this book was a more difficult read. According to Mckee, we can clearly see…

  7. Johanna, I agree that this is a realistic fictional story, but I certainly did not initially approach this book with…

  9. Johanna, I was surprised that you connected Buttercup’s reaction to Westley’s supposed death to the Lion King. Intertextually, this section…

  10. Anna, I like how you went into detail about the genre expectations that the different sections of the novel play…

  29. I agree with Johanna with the domestic fiction but when I was reading and realizing that it is a realistic…

  35. The Princess Bride as a piece of Genre Fiction is super interesting because it incorporates many different genres together. Not…

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