Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

Since the church occupies such an important position in the culture of African-Americans, it also strongly dominates moral norms. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham writes about the religious beliefs of African-Americans in "Black religious and ethnic records of the 1920s and 1930s:" Religious culture of the poor ... ". Accepting ethical principles and accusing quick and free lifestyle blues culture Poverty African Americans dedicate their moral norms to eagerly form religious cultures that make church dominant influence of their culture have.

Author James Baldwin explains John Grimes's 14th birthday process in Harlem in 1935. Baldwin also used an extended flashback incident to explain the lives of John's parents and aunt and to connect city boys. North to his early southern slave grandmother. The first part follows John 's idea, the second part mainly to his aunt, the third part to his father, the fourth part to his mother, and the fifth part to John' s principal . The novel is absorbed in the words of the James Bible and the Bible continues to exist in the characters' life, so familiarity with the Biblical story can deepen the understanding of the reader's sentences. At the heart of the story there are three main confrontations. Father and child conflict, adult struggle, and religious crisis.

James Baldwin tells the story of the mountains mentioned in the Bible, reminiscent of the spirit of the Black Church in the 1930s and the realism brought back to Harlem. Throughout the book, the Grimes family desperately turned his attention to the church. These gods signs in the book indicate the lives of the blacks of the 1930s. "John ... It is the descendant of Gabriel, the missionary believes that" All white people are bad, God takes them downwards "and God has promised him to continue the Bible" "(Bawer 81). Then Bawer said that the second half of this book is full of flashbacks. "In this novel, that style has the solemnity of James Bible King and black slang music, it evokes harem's vision and voice, frustration and hypocrisy" (Bawer 81)