There are thousands of writers around the world, but only a handful can be considered impacting. James Baldwin, though controversial in his own time due to his homosexual writings, became a leading black commentator on the suffering and abuse of his people in the United States, which he believed symbolized universal conflicts. Through his own experiences James Baldwin was able to write honest and impacting pieces of writing. His childhood and his relationship with his stepfather was the basis for his most famous novel, Got Tell it on the Mountain. In addition, Baldwin grew up during the Ha...

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The document later states "Hemmingway has trained himself rigorously to see and retain those aspects of a place that make it that place, even though, with an odd skill, he manages at the same to render these aspects generically" (Baker 57). ... An example of the great detail that Hemmingway used in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" can be seen when he describes the grasshopper that Nick encounters. ...

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