The Fire Next Time Analysis

In The Fire Next Time Baldwin informs his grandson about the living in the ghetto and how he will live and die in the there. He will never know what it is like to live a life more successful than his father’s. Due to his harsh living condition he creates a hard exterior to protect himself against the harsh environment around him, but he deep down he believes that the white men’s degrading term are true. Society’s views on black men have pushed him into a area or social status where he is supposed to be staying at.

In Do the Right Thing the black community is similar in this regard. There are homeless people chattering about big dreams and reality cruelty. Mookie has a tough exterior to hide his innermost thoughts. I feel like he made this

In the film, Buggin’ Out verbally attacks a property owning white man for running over his new Air Jordans and then asks him “What are you doing in my neighborhood?” In this brief scene Lee is able to show how a character in a poor neighborhood feels the psychological need to compete with others economically (commons.marymount.edu). This is an example of the Culture Industry and Buggin’ Out displays this because he buys the latest shoes and does not want to feel that he was literally and symbolically being run over by a man who was much wealthier than he

Ultimately, until white people are able to understand that black people are not inferior to them, there is no hope for them to change. Baldwin urges his nephew to seek lasting change for black people in America rather than vengeance for the abuses they have been forced to endure. Baldwin concludes that even though the anger of black people is entirely justified, separating from America, or eliminating white people is not a feasible solution.

Baldwin examines the self-deluding attitudes of both white and black Americans, not only about race relations but also about the nature of life. Baldwin concludes that in order to move toward solving “the Negro Problem” in America, we must be willing to expand our ways of thinking about and experiencing the