James Baldwin's Go Tell It On A Mountain

When John says that Elizabeth is still judging him because of the affair he had with Abigail, Elizabeth says this quote. She is comparing John's conscience to a judge. He feels that she has not forgiven him even though she said that she forgave him. She states that it is his own guilty conscious and heart that he is sensing. Her saying this means she's not very sympathetic for all of his problems.

John’s affair created and inner struggle/conflict for him. He was always wanting to what was right but his affair with Abigail constantly held him back. How could he accuse others for doing wrong when he was holding a dirty secret himself? He wanted Abigail’s lies to stop but he couldn’t stop her unless he came out clean. Then finally, one day he couldn’t take it anymore, the guilt was eating him alive and he had to put an end to Abigail’s lies, so he admitted to the court that he had committed lechery. He worked through his fears and struggles and did what was right for a greater cause. But it ended up not doing anything.

He would continually say in his diary that he felt the Lord. Then the next day he said that he did not feel the presence of the Lord. Overall he would say that he longed to grow closer and closer to the Lord.

In these quotes John shows his anger towards authority which is just Parris at this point in the Crucible. These quotes show that John had evil ways beforehand and shows his dislike for the town’s authorities and wants the church to change for the better. ​

gods being human. He is a well developed person. You see every aspect of John.

This caused in him a feeling in which he had never felt before, and thus inspired him to new things to get himself more aquatinted with God:

At the realization of the truth, John breaks down and sobs, not only from seeing how his race had been devastated before, but also at the realization that all the knowledge he had gathered as a child was false. In his unyielding desire to learn more, he never thought of what would happen once he gained the knowledge that he wanted, and if he would be satisfied if it revealed something he didn’t want to learn.

He goes into depth about hoping for something to happen, anything. He expresses himself of what was going through him excitedly for example the author says, “So I sat there calmly in the hot, crowded church, waiting for Jesus to come to me.” (182) He describes his situation attempting to make some sort of relationship with God. He creates an anxious tone in order to demonstrate just how important having a connection was valuable to him. Why having a connection to God was important at that time is because before the big revival was over they called the kids to convert them. When it was time to bring his spiritual needs, he was told by his aunt “when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! …I believed her.” (182) Hughes punctuation creates an ethos tone of voice by being persuaded by his aunt. The author may employ pathos through his emotional language. This rhetorical appeal is often used to emphasize his emotional response towards how he feels about being “saved.” The outpouring of his emotions towards getting “saved” was a big concern that he was trying to achieve. He implicated how not only was he expected to be touched by the presence of God, but every other kid his age. This is how the writer was discussing about him being open about the idea of being “saved.”

The significance of the scene is that Elizabeth asks John questions when he gets home late and she shows him no affection like if she doesn’t really trust him anymore. It reveals that their relationship no longer has trust.

Another quote I would like to use to support John's bravery is, "She looked to dance with me on my wife's grave. God help me, I lusted!" The reason I chose this out of the rest was because it shows how far John will go, even if it means to soil his reputation, just to get Abigail out of control. "Because it is my NAME! Because I may not have another in my life!" This is when John is completely forgiven for all his sins. He has gone through so much that he feels he should at least keep his name. He realizes that if he signs this confession given to him to be posted on the church door, he would never be able to get his life back. After his decision to go on with the truth, you finally see how brave he must be for not lying to the court.

John is unhappy with his lack of knowledge, and he wants to know more about the gods and where they came from. Another key point Benet clarifies, “ I prayed and purified myself, waiting for a sign. The sign was an eagle. It flew east”(176). John sees the eagle and is determined to follow it towards the destination he is hoping for. Because John and both have undeniable motivation to start their journey it's easy to see the obvious similarity.

The narration in this novel adds so much dimension to the story. It all starts with John telling his own life story. His story becomes much of Owen’s life story when John and Owen meet. John narrates his and Owen’s life along with telling his own thoughts and feelings about how everything happened. John also flashes back and forth between his present day life in Canada and his past life in Gravesend. This is what adds dimension to the story because Johnny is relating his present life to his past life. He has many political aspects when it comes to the time period that he grew up in. Growing up in the sixties was not a pretty time. There was war, assassinations, and social inequality. John even states, “Whenever I hear someone generalizing favorably about ‘the sixties,’ I feel like Hester, I feel like throwing up”(510). Referring to all the times that Hester threw up in the rose bushes on New Year’s Eve.

This quote shows how Proctor regrets having an affair with Abigail and does not wish to continue it any longer. Since their encounter, John avoids Abigail as often as possible because he wants to prove to his wife that he truly feels sorry for what he did. He wants to prove that he has changed his ways and that he is a trustworthy man. John loves his wife very much and he tries to show her that the affair was nothing but a mistake. However, Elizabeth still doubts him. “Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judges for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!” (Proctor,

He refers back to the time when his children were starving, saying that “I would rather cross the Atlantic ten times than hear my children cry for victuals once” (Dowe 43). John is explaining how he would rather risk his own life by crossing the ocean than have his children cry from hunger. Dowe hopes to make his wife realize that it’s worth the long journey. Coming to America is worth the risk because him and his family would not be hungry anymore. In the last paragraph, Dowe puts in writing how America “is a country where a man can stand as a man, and where he can enjoy the fruits of his own exertions, with rational liberty to its fullest extent” (Dowe 59). Dowe says ‘fruits of his own exertions’ as a metaphor for how nobody can take away a person's freedom to live and enjoy life. He needs his wife to understand that they will be safe to do as much as they want in their new life together in

The sermon at the mount is a collection of teachings and sayings that Jesus preaches to people at Galilee. It takes place after Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. This is the longest teaching by Jesus in a single preaching. It is found in the New Testament in the book of Matthew. It transverses chapter five to seven of the Gospel of Matthew. The main theme of sermon of the mountain is how people should relate with other people and God. The sermon is preached at a mountain when Jesus saw the crowd and his disciples’ were following him, he sat at a level ground on the mountain and started to preach. The Preaching’s can be divided it four major parts; The Beatitudes, Lord’s Prayer and parables.