John returns home to find that Roy has gone with some neighborhood boys to pick a fight and has been cut with a knife.
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He walks through Central Park and down Fifth Avenue, before going into a movie theater to watch a film. Once John has finished his chores, his mother Elizabeth gives him some money for his birthday and he goes out. His younger brother Roy also resents his father's strictness, but unlike John has begun to rebel by running with a rough crowd. As he does his chores, he thinks about his relationship with his domineering father, who does not seem to love him, and with the storefront church at which his father is a sometimes preacher. In Part One, John wakes up on his birthday. The first and final parts mainly follow John's thoughts with glimpses of the thoughts of others, while the sections in Part Two mainly follow the thoughts of the character for whom they are named. The novel is divided into three parts, with the second part further subdivided into three: "Part One: The Seventh Day," "Part Two: The Prayer of the Saints-Florence's Prayer," "Part Two: The Prayer of the Saints-Gabriel's Prayer," "Part Two: The Prayer of the Saints-Elizabeth's Prayer," and, finally, "Part Three: The Threshing-Floor". The novel is focused on John Grimes, but narrative voice shifts between characters' perspectives, allowing access to the thoughts and reminiscences of John's father, mother, and aunt. The story takes place during one twenty-four hour period, but contains extended flashbacks which cover a period of over 70 years.
Go Tell It on the Mountain has a nonlinear structure. Baldwin set sail back to Europe on August 28 and Go Tell It On The Mountain was published in May 1953. After the final draft was accepted, Baldwin published excerpts of the novel in two publications: one excerpt was published as "Exodus" in American Mercury and the other as "Roy's Wound" in New World Writing. He agreed to rewrite parts of Go Tell It On The Mountain in exchange for a $250 advance ($2,436 today) and a further $750 ($7,309 today) paid when the final manuscript was completed. Knopf expressed interest and Baldwin returned to New York to meet with Knopf. In February 1952, Baldwin sent a later manuscript from Paris, where he was living at the time, to New York publishing house Alfred A. Wright helped Baldwin secure and advance from Harper & Brothers but the deal did not result in publication. Baldwin showed an early manuscript to novelist Richard Wright in 1944. It was the result of work that began in at least 1938. Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first published novel and draws heavily on Baldwin's personal experience and the experiences of those around him during his childhood in Harlem, particularly those who came to Harlem as part of the Great Migration from the South. At fourteen, he began preaching himself and continued for several years. and physically abusive, he was also a storefront preacher of morbid intensity." During his high school years, uncomfortable with the fact that, unlike many of his peers, he was becoming more sexually interested in males than in females, Baldwin sought refuge in religion. He later described his stepfather as "Brooding, silent, tyrannical. James Baldwin took his step-father's surname and was raised as his son along with his many half-siblings.
Several years later, his mother married a much older laborer and Baptist preacher from Louisiana who had come north in 1919.
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in Harlem to an unwed mother who had left Maryland for New York and never knew his biological father.
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