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Analysis Of Stranger In The Village

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Art is the expression of human’s creative skill and imagination, art pass through society, and it reflects social life by shaping. Art, such as literature, dance, painting, calligraphy, and music. James Baldwin, a famous African- American author of “Stranger in the village.” He discussed the rank and relationship between the Blacks and Whites in the society. Also, Baldwin went to the village in Leukerbad, and lived with the White Europeans. This essay is about the the experience and history of him. Teju Cole was the one who had read the “Stranger in the village” and he wrote what he felt about James Baldwin’s essay. Their opinions were opposite, but I think there is no right or wrong. James Baldwin was born at 1924 and died in …show more content…

I agree with James Baldwin’s idea because if a person painted, scripture, calligraphy and any artwork, then the art work can be creative by reflecting the society but it does not belong to you. For an example, there is a paint, and it was painted by a Blacks, then I will think there’s no connection with me because there’s nothing about Asians. If an Asian made a artwork, then I will be surprised and proud because it represent us, something from that country. So I agree with James Baldwin’s idea. In “Stranger in the Village” is discover the function of language is to control the universe by describing it. There is nothing can be attraction instead of freedom on Earth. Furthermore, this freedom which is allowed the unredeemed. If whites will treat blacks as a human being, then they are naturally malicious. When James Baldwin was in that village, he knew a truth. The fact was the Americans were not scared Americans anymore but discontented Europeans. In that time of the United States, Whites cannot accept Blacks as one of themselves because this will shake their status, level, and position. “Thus it was impossible for Americans to accept the black man as one of themselves, for to do so was to jeopardize their status as a white man.” This discovery that the whites motive was to protect their own identity and the blacks were motivated by the need to establish an identity on the society. The whites

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