In James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son”, many different stories throughout his life are presented to convey his feelings towards his father and his treatment as a young black man in America at the time. He walks the reader through many encounters with his father, which begin with his father’s death. Baldwin describes his feeling the morning of the funeral and the discontent he had at the time. He goes on to describe how his father was brought up and his ideals; and how this led him to raise his children. He describes how his father became “ill a long time-in the mind” (Baldwin, 2004, p.42) and how this affected Baldwin’s feelings towards him. Baldwin later goes on and identifies, according to him the single conversation he ever had with