If Beale Street Could Talk Essay

Another example of the theme, is when the teacher asked Phillip to stop humming in class. Phillip didn’t not do so he was asked to leave the class and go to

If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin, is a story about a man who has been falsely accused of a crime, simply because he does as doesn’t conform to the white society’s expectations of him. As Hans F. Hanson says, “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” By putting Fonny, one of the story’s main protagonists, in the position where he has to defy the expected standards of society, Baldwin is able to achieve his purpose of creating an honest but brutal story that displays his character’s courage to not accept life’s circumstances and “join the crowd,” and instead carve his own path for his life, which results in many troubles that Fonny is forced to endure as he gives everything he has

One reason I think this because in the beginning of the short, the two men disagreed on which way the little boy should wear his new hat. One man, who appeared to be the boy's father, wanted him to wear it down, while the other man, who appeared to be his grandfather, wanted the young boy to wear the hat up. The boy obviously didn’t like either of the ways, so he wore the hat his very own way and not how his father or grandfather wanted him to. I think this is an example of the theme because the boy wore his hat how he wanted and not how the two men wanted it

Throughout If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin the main characters have to overcome the challenges of racism, and the traits that go hand and hand with it, justice and prejudice, to realize what they actually needed was the family love they already had. Even though there are many romantic and even some graphic passages in the book, Baldwin mainly focuses on how they had to come together as a family when Alonzo (Fonny) was in jail and awaiting trial. If Beale Street Could Talk is essentially a story about the human capacity to love.

The Black youth is over represented at every stage in the United States juvenile justice system. Ten years ago, Black youth were more than two times more likely to have a delinquency case before the juvenile court than white youth. Dr. Shook and Dr. Goodkind examined three possible avenues to prove if black youth, are more likely to be detained than similarly situated white youth. “Three possible avenues have begun to be examined—the first is related to youths’ attitude and character as assessed by justice system personnel, the second is related to judgments about adequate parental supervision and/or school and work involvement, and the third is related to what some have called ‘‘justice by geography.’’ To conclude Dr. Shook’s and Goodkind findings, Black youth are treated

To prove a truth that lies within the underbellies of society, requires the skill of observation, precision, and the ability to make the previously unknown blatantly obvious. James Baldwin employs all these tactics in If Beale Street Could Talk in order to reveal the social injustice faced within America due to long withstanding social prejudices, fear, and corruption through the adventures of Tish and Fonny, where Fonny has been falsely accused of rape and Tish is pregnant.. To accomplish this immense task that lies ahead of him, Baldwin writes in an first person omniscient point of view which allows insight into a broader spectrum of society in order to support a single argument, creates foil characters in order to explore the complexity of the system from either extreme, and employs a syntax of mostly short simple sentences to explain the thought logically and precisely.

One way the author conveys the theme is through the main character’s actions. She strives to be like an American girl and is stubbornly blind

To start I use the theme, hysteria. Hysteria supplants logic and enables people to believe that their neighbors, whom they have always considered upstanding people, are committing absurd and unbelievable crimes. It suspends the rules of daily life and allows the acting out of every dark desire and hateful urge under the cover of righteousness. I use it in

If Beale street could talk takes you on a long emotional roller coaster about what its like to be black in America where the justice system doesn’t seem to be for us. James Baldwin addresses social injustice and how it affects us and the people around us. Through his writing he shares a story about a young woman and man who use their love for one another to get them through a hardship or might I say just one of the many problems within the black community. James Baldwin captures your attention by focusing on an issue that has been going on for years that many of us may or have not experienced before but we sure have witnessed someone go through it. With the way he uses his characters, helps us visualize the setting, gives insight on social injustice, and presents how powerful love can be ,we can see how every element is relevant leading up to the plot.

The theme revolves around the idea that if one does not express their true feelings and remain true to themselves, consequences could ensue that may involve others who had nothing to do with their issues in the first place. This theme could be derived from the inciting incident, the rising action and the climax. The inciting incident occurs due to the fact that Laurey chooses Jud over Curley in order to see how he would react. This example remains true to the theme since jealousy is the main force driving Laurey to commit to her actions, all the while remaining in denial of actually liking Jud. Moreover, Curley, being jealous of Jud, decides to pay him a visit which causes a commotion and a worsens the relationship between the two characters.

The playwright theme was back in history when there was a lot of fighting. The play had two themes for me. One of the points that I got was that you can not judge people for their outer appearances and to stop worrying what other people think. Another point that I got from the play was that you can not take life for granted because you never know what will happen.

The theme, or at least one of them, is the renounce of the societal illusion imposed on a large majority of people. The lawyer realizes that without the mercy and humoring the populous performs in every interaction there is no sociability except what is determined as being sociopathic, using each other as tools and a system, the true nature of humans without this imposed act of compatibility. Realizing a new reality he could not return into the society he knew, a denounce of the inevitable, a truth that is just as much of an illusion as today's society

This is from how it impacts the characters and how it exposes characteristics of them throughout the story. Along with exposing the good and evil within each character and who has a bigger impact on the plot of the story. This theme also impacts certain actions within the story as well as amplify important actions within the story that readers should focus on when reading the play. Even though there are many themes throughout the play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” this theme is one that is well developed within the story and is one that should be taken from the story when one reads the

the common theme surrounds the acceptance of freedom. In the story a family from Russia named after the Duvitches, live in a community where they are not accepted at first, but eventually are by their fellow neighbours, the choice that the Duvitches made to move to America freed them from cruelty and imprisonment, but did not free them from judgement and hiding, and they eventually made their way to complete freedom and acceptance, and lastly Mr. Duvitch gains enough faith and acceptance to show the community who he really is.

The theme is a major component of a novel.  Not only does it gives the work purpose, it also produces concert and unanimity.  Paul Hunter says, "The