Chapter Summary: Go Tell It To The Mountain

The first chapter of Braving the Wilderness is Everywhere and Nowhere. This chapter is about her family and her life as a teenager. The main topic is that we do numerous things with torment to not feel it. We numb or deliver it on others, we deny it or pass it onto friends and family, or we discover empathy for ourselves and claim the agony. In chapter 2 of Braving the Wilderness, she talks about the political atmosphere and how it is like a battle zone. She also defines belonging on page 31. It says belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. I can relate to wanting to belong especially in high school. She also tells us to learn how to be brave and to experience the discomfort of standing alone is a skill we need to learn. In High Lonesome a

Message of the Mountain is a Christian fiction written by Matilda Nordtvedt. The book has 135 pages with 30 chapters. The story takes place in Bellingham, Washington in the early 1900s.

Thinking about all the stuff she wants to accomplish the next day, she thought about: death, which she feels is near, her dead husband John, her children and about Hapsy, her dead last-born child. There is a painful memory that she can’t separate from hell, causing her to be depressed, the memory of being jilted. She was stood up at her own wedding by George. “For sixty years she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell”. (Porter, 1930) This is a memory she never let go and dominates her thoughts as she nears death, getting her to confuse the timeline of her experiences in life and hallucinate. Also, in a moment she imagines seeing Hapsy “standing with a baby on her arm.” (Porter,1930). As the figure of Hapsy disappears from her, she decides that she wanted to see George and tell him that she has forgotten him and now has a rich life. She wants him to know that she has everything he took from her. Suddenly, she thought she was in labor and sends John to get the doctor. In some way, she believes that after she gives birth to Hapsy, she will gain again some of her strength. At the end, still thinking about George and waiting for Hapsy, she asks God for a sign and doesn't get one, she feels that now God has jilted her and

From information gathered, my opinion is that this book had emotional effect on most people. It was tragic and sad and also a profound impact on readers when it was first published. It talked about the history of the white settlement of the American west which was told by the people who were there both white and indian which was not learned in school. It is a great book which present a people who loved the earth and respected human life. It also talked about the loss of a beautiful land and the demise of a conscientious and spiritual way of life and finally the extirpation of a nation of people. The interest in environmental issues was growing and the accounts of the destruction by the settlers of the Eastern forest, the soiling of the rivers

In “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin, the author works with themes identity, religion and hate. He does through John, Gabriel and the symbol of the church. Baldwin is trying to say how family and history can really tell a lot about an individual.

Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain was his first novel, and some would argue that it was his best. Baldwin's

To begin, Eliezer's father's love gave him something to live for. Had Eliezer gone through the traumatising event, known

While attending the convocation festival today we were open to the opportunity to be enlightened by Jay Erzkine Leutze, author of Stand Up That Mountain. While he spoke I was not enlightened about items in the novel, however I was enlightened by his views on values. His views on what values make a person better. He spoke about his belief that if someone wanted to be a good person they needed to focus on the environment. If someone treats he environment well and pursues the rest of their life and values surrounding the environment that person is able to do much good. I do agree with Mr. Leutze in this regard. If someone is willing to take care of the environment and the materials within their surrounding area then they are willing to care for the organisms and people living within that environment. Those people are able to plan ahead and focus on future generations and are less likely to be selfish individuals.

In James Baldwin’s novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, the semi-autobiographical piece serves as a biblical allusion. Gabriel is one of the book’s main characters. He is a radical preacher at the local church in Harlem, Temple of the Fire Baptized. He is an allusion to the biblical Gabriel, an angel who serves as God’s messenger. The Archangel Gabriel informs Zachariah that his wife Elizabeth will give birth to a child, John the Baptist.

I have three brothers who share a similar interest with me in skiing. We all love to go ski whenever we can, which varies every year. We love finding hills around our little town and going sledding, but it does not compare to the exhilarating fun we have on the Sleeping Giant mountain. My older brother accompanys me in snowboarding, while my two younger brothers ski alongside us. We have fun trying to one up each other on jumps, or seeing who can race down the hill the fastest. Usually we just enjoy the the amazing views Sleeping Giant has to offer. This can all be so easily taken away though with the decision of one man. We all know how the oil prices have fluctuated so drastically over the past two years, and for a while there we felt like

The day before Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, MLK Jr. spoke at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968 about the Memphis Sanitation Strike. The intention of the speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” was to convince other African Americans to band together and support the sanitation workers after two black, garbage collectors died in an accident. The deaths caused others to realize the unequal treatment of blacks and whites in the workplace. MLK uses ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade fellow African Americans to band together in a nonviolent movement for the equalization between races.

Golden touches upon foreign racisms in chapter seven, and uses effective comparisons to emphasize and elaborate on his mocking tone and the overall purpose. Chapter seven convinces readers that American elite universities are denying the acceptance to most Asian-American and other foreign raced student candidates. University goals are to expand diversity and culture, but only foreign wealthy students from the top boarding schools around the world are being accepted to American colleges, some would suggest because of their money.

In the last chapter of this novel, “The Threshing-Floor”, Baldwin dedicates this chapter to John’s journey to his spirituality. In the opening chapter John describes a feeling of possession as he and his congregation is in pray. Baldwin narrates the events happening to John, “And something moved in John’s body which was not John. He was invaded, set naught, possessed. This power had struck John, in the head or in the heart;” As his mind is taken on this journey he feels like he’s lost mobility. His body becomes weightless, but he does not want to subdue, he fights to rise up. He does not want to fall, because he feels like it’s a dungeon deeper then hell. In his trace he sees his family all about him and the congregation members. John does what I would do, he looks towards his father for help, when he looks into his face, what he sees is not light, but darkness. There was no warmth or compassion from his father. This is why he felt the way he did towards his father; he loathed him because that is what his father showed him. His feelings of hatred is depicted in this passage narrated by Baldwin,

Unfortunately, the connection that Gabriel feels to his wife is the product of illusion. In reality, he doesn’t know her at all—a fact Joyce alludes to when Gabriel fails to recognize his own wife and sees only, “[a] woman standing near the top of the stairs…” (2192). When Gretta begins to reminisce about a boy from her past, Gabriel’s blanket of illusion is snatched away: “While he had been full of…joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another” (2197). Facing the reality of his wife’s love for another man, Gabriel now begins to question their entire relationship.

With the technique of imagery it's revealed that Gabriel is a ponderant individual that looks at the negative side of things. The darkness surrounding him in the room shows the negativity he feels upon death. The surroundings of Gabriel reveal his dark thoughts. With the concept of symbolism we see that Gabriel is a very somber individual. We see the symbolization of death, love, mortality, and life in the form of Julia, Fuery, black clothing, and the funeral. Julia represents love or rather the lack of love Gabriel