This essay recalls the news item about six girls who attacked another girl on a subway because "she was stepping on their toes.
This essay recalls the news item about six girls who attacked another girl on a subway because "she was stepping on their toes." Its author argues in one section that the only two choices that seem to be available are metaphorically equivalent to gangrene and amputation. The first section of this essay ends as the author recalls running away from the scene after being compelled by an unquenchable rage to throw a jug of water at a waitress in a fancy restaurant. Its third section takes place on its author's nineteenth birthday, after he has been called home for the birth of his baby sister. On that day, he attends the funeral of his (*) father, a minister whose bitterness and anger had distanced him from his children. After the funeral, the author relates how a policeman shooting a black soldier at the Hotel Braddock led to the 1943 Harlem race riot. This essay titles a collection that includes the essays "The Harlem Ghetto" and "Everybody's Protest Novel." For 10 points, name this essay by James Baldwin which draws its name from a Richard Wright novel.
This essay recalls the news item about six girls who attacked another girl on a subway because "she was stepping on their toes.
“{Notes of a Native Son}”