Blog 4
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…
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…
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…
Hermeneutic Code in Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin’s “Go Tell it on the Mountain” follows a teenage boy from a poor family, John, on his quest to gain the favor of his father. Gabriel, his father, is a strict religious parent and clearly favors John’s brother, Roy, despite his wild personality. Regardless of John’s efforts and his respect for the rules…
Aesthetic Emotion on the Mountain
By: Rhys Ancheta Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin is a semi-autobiographical novel about a black teenage boy named John Grimes and his religious family. The story takes place in 1930’s Harlem and around John’s fourteenth birthday. Through third-person omniscient narration, the reader’s focus drifts back and forth from John and his family.…
How Writers Read - Fall 2021 - Group 5 