Notes Of A Native Son Rhetoric

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The audience at times is unaware that Baldwin is utilizing personal anecdotes to draw the similarities between his personal life and the politics around him. Notes of a Native Son is entirely filled with his first hand accounts as he battled his way through the politically driven world. Race relations motivate him to commit actions he would have through a hundred times over. For example, Baldwin and his friend went to have lunch a white-only diner. Baldwin proceeded to disobey the establishment’s rules and sit down at a table to order food. A waiter hesitantly scurried over to him and began to repeat to him that they “don’t serve Negroes here.” After some time and enough anger built up, Baldwin “picked up a ordinary water mug half full of water
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