This shows you that he did want to escape the darkness that was Harlem, and try and make a difference, but he now knows the hopelessness of the situation, and that in fact, there is no escape. In the next paragraph he describes the situation of growing up in Harlem as, "growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities" (pg. 104). That quote really hits Baldwin's points in the three pieces right on the head. He wants to show us how the blacks were held down by society and how there really was no escape. "Man Child" is actually more of a metaphorical story, then a direct story of how blacks are hitting their heads on the ceiling of their possibilities. When reading it, as a white person, it makes more sense to you because it seems more real to you, because as whites we have never had to deal with black oppression. In the story Jamie is the oppressed one, and Eric's father is the oppressor. You could translate that to Jamie being the black male, and Eric's father being society, mainly white society. Jamie really has no where to go, he completely reliant on Eric's family, they bought all his land, they feed him. In a sense he has hit the ceiling of his possibilities, at one point Baldwin writes that Jamie did try to escape and go to the city, but found it hopeless and returned back to the country, he knew there was no escape. So he snapped, and knew the only way he could end the oppression was by taking away the oppressors heir, Eric, so he killed him. This goes along with all the violence and Baldwin refers to in the ghettos in the other two stories, particularly in "Notes of a Native Son." The people of Harlem rioted and became very violent, because that is what people do when they are oppressed, they want to escape but can't and grow aggravated and snap in fits violence. .
In the middle of "Sonny's Blues" is a great depiction of the "Light vs.
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