`` Strangers `` By Toni Morrison And James Baldwin

Without any credit, the environment leads people to make choices that shape their lives and thoughts. Even though people might have similar backgrounds it doesn t mean that they share the same opinions. Everyone carries a different opinion of a stranger in his/her mind depending upon there past encounters with strangers. This is evident in the works of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. We encounter too many people everyday and it’s impossible to get to know them all. We observe and gauge them based on appearances, just like we do with â€Å" Books based on their cover † says Edwin Rolfe in â€Å"Murder in the Glass room†. In â€Å"Strangers† by Morrison, she meets a fisherwoman at her neighbor’s seawall. Morrison notices that the woman was â€Å"wearing men’s shoes, a man’s hat, a well-worn colorless sweater over a long black dress†(Morrison 199). It seems upon seeing disgracefully dressed fisherwoman Morrison feels sympathy for her since roughly dressed people are considered to be unsuccessful and defeated in today’s world. Whenever we see homeless people weather on streets or on television they are always shabbily dressed, but have we ever seen a successful person dressed like a homeless guy? We think and opinionate based on our past experiences and adapt to what we see and hear in the environment ar ound us. ||||| In â€Å"Stranger in the village† Baldwin visits a little village in Switzerland to work. No black man had ever been to this village before and the Baldwin was told that he would be aShow MoreRelatedLessons Learned from Notes to a Native Son1731 Words   |  7 Pages Realizing What Society Really Is Born in 1924, James Baldwin grew up in Harlem during harsh racism and the infamous Jim Crow laws. In addition to being surrounded by hate crimes and riots, Baldwin had a rough relationship with his father, who died when Baldwin was only nineteen. Twelve years after his father?s death, Baldwin wrote an essay, entitled ?Notes of a Native Son,? which described the events that took place around the time of his father?s death. Being one of his trademarkRead MoreHow to Read Lit Like a Prof Notes3608 Words   |  15 Pages(excerpt) novel Henry Fielding Cathedral SS Raymond Carver Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler The Dead SS James Joyce 3. Vampires and Ghosts Dracula novel Bram Stoker Hamlet play William Shakespeare A Christmas Carol novel Charles Dickens Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde novel Robert Louis Stevenson The Turn of the Screw novella Henry James Daisy Miller novel Henry James Tess of the Dubervilles novel Thomas Hardy Metamorphosis and Hunger Artist novel Franz Kafka A Severed Head, The UnicornRead MoreBlack Naturalism and Toni Morrison: the Journey Away from Self-Love in the Bluest Eye8144 Words   |  33 Pageswell: the idea that one s social and physical environments can drastically affect one s nature and potential for surviving and succeeding in this world. In this article, I will explore Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye from a naturalistic perspective; however, while doing so I will propose that because Morrison s novels are distinctly black and examine distinctly black issues, we must expand or deconstruct the traditional theory of naturalism to deal adequately with the African American experience: