Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Flashback
Allusion
"I read about Sonny's
troubles in the spring.
Little Grace died in the fall.
She was a beautiful little girl.
She died of polio and she
suffered" (Baldwin 14).
"For me, then, as they began
to play again, it glowed and
shook above my brother's
head like the very cup od
trembling" (Baldwin 21).
Allusion
The narrator talks about how he thought that his daughter would be okay, but then she died.
"You mean---like Louis
Armstrong?" (Baldwin 10).
"Bird! Charlie Parker! Don't
they teach you nothing in the
goddamn army" (Baldwin 11).
The narrator refers to his brother ending his life of drugs and starting a new life with music.
Imagery
The narrator is trying to relate to the kind of music his brother likes, however, he doesn't understand any of these things, so Sonny gets angry.
"Your father's brother, being
always kind of frisky, decided to run down this hill, and he did, with that guitar banging and clanging behind him, and he ran across the road" (Baldwin 8).
The narrator's mom tells how his father's brother died, and how it changed his life.
Flashback
"This was the last time I ever
saw my mother alive" (Baldwin 7).
While thinking about his father, the narrator remembers the last conversation he had with his mother.
Flashback
"Safe!' my father grunted,
whenever Mama suggested trying
to move to a neighborhood
which might be safer for children"
(Baldwin 7).
The narrator realizes that his father
hadn't been as bad as he had always
thought. His father wanted a safer neighborhood for his children.
Imagery
"So we drove along, between
the green of the park and the stony, lifeless elegance of hotels and apartment buildings, toward the vivid, killing streets of our childhood" (Baldwin 6).
The narrator is comparing his neighborhood to the upper class.
"The juke box was blasting
away with something black and bouncy and I half watched the barmaid. When she smiled one saw the little girl, one sensed the doomed, still-struggling woman beneath the battered face of the semi-whore" (Baldwin 3).
This quote describes the struggle they go through to earn money in this neighborhood.