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Toni Morrison, volume editor, was the author of numerous awardвЂ“winning novels, including Love, Jazz, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye, and Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. There isnвЂ™t any other tale to tell, itвЂ™s the only light weвЂ™ve got in all this darkness.вЂќ Going to Meet the Man (1965) collects BaldwinвЂ™s short fiction, including the masterful вЂњSonnyвЂ™s Blues,вЂќ the unforgettable portrait of a jazz musician struggling with drug addiction in which Baldwin came closest to defining his goal as a writer: вЂњFor, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it must be heard.

Complex in structure and turbulent in mood, it is in many ways BaldwinвЂ™s most ambitious novel. Another Country (1962), a wide-ranging exploration of AmericaвЂ™s racial and sexual boundaries, depicts the suicide of a gifted jazz musician and its ripple effect on those who knew him. GiovanniвЂ™s Room (1956) is a searching, and in its day controversial, treatment of the tragic self-delusions of a young American expatriate at war with his own homosexuality. Ten years in the writing, its exploration of religious, sexual, and generational conflicts was described by Baldwin as вЂњan attempt to exorcise something, to find out what happened to my father, what happened to all of us.вЂќ His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), tells the story, rooted in BaldwinвЂ™s own experience, of a preacherвЂ™s son coming of age in 1930вЂ™s Harlem. His historical importance is indisputable.вЂќ Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James BaldwinвЂ™s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. вЂњThe civil rights struggle,вЂќ said The New York Times Book Review, вЂњfound eloquent expression in novels.

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Next Section Irony Previous Section Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format GradeSaver 'Going to Meet the Man Metaphors and Similes'. In 'Come Out the Wilderness,' Baldwin describes the malevolent quality taken on by Ruth's telephone: 'And as the night faded from black to gray to daylight, the telephone began to seem another presence in the house, sitting not far from her like a great, malevolent black cat that might, at any moment, with one shrill cry, scatter her life like dismembered limbs all over this tiny room.' The foreboding associations of black cats reflect Ruth's fear that her family may call any day and tell her that someone has died, thus forcing her to return to the South and leave New York behind for an unknown amount of time. Telephone like a black cat (Simile) - 'Come Out the Wilderness' During the stretch of time he lived at Isabel's, he poured his entire being into learning the piano. And the sound didnвЂ™t make any sense to her, didnвЂ™t make any sense to any of them-naturally.' The description of Sonny as merely 'a sound' emphasizes the so-called 'cloud' he existed in. Isabel finally confessed that it wasnвЂ™t like living with a person at all, it was like living with sound.

The narrator of 'Sonny's Blues' describes his brother's presence at Isabel's house while he was away in the army: 'Well, I really donвЂ™t know how they stood it. Like living with sound (Simile) - 'Sonny's Blues' When the narrator of 'Sonny's Blues' meets his brother after he's released from jail, he says, 'The seven yearsвЂ™ difference in our ages lay between us like a chasm: I wondered if these years would ever operate between us as a bridge.' The narrator feels disconnected from his brother because their experiences have been so different in life, but he's hoping to invert this difference someday and make their different experiences tools to better understand one another. Age difference like a chasm (Simile) - 'Sonny's Blues' Perhaps when drunk, Jamie yearns for the sense of purpose he felt when he was in the army, a purpose that he has lost now that he is back on what used to be his father's land, land that no longer belongs to him. Drunk, he became rigid, as though he imagined himself in the army again.' This image goes against the typical perception of drunkenness loosening a person up. In 'The Man Child,' Baldwin describes Jamie's drunkenness through the eyes of Eric: 'Eric had seen him much drunker. Rigid as a soldier (Simile) - 'The Man Child' He writes, 'The child stared at the man in fascination and terror-when a girl down home she had seen rabbits stand so paralyzed before the barking dog.' The comparison both provides exposition regarding Elizabeth's rural, southern origins and emphasizes John's vulnerability and helplessness under Gabriel's thumb. Buy Study Guide John, like a rabbit facing a barking dog - 'The Rockpile' (Metaphor)Д«aldwin describes Elizabeth's witness of John enduring Gabriel's interrogation.

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