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Hatred In Notes Of A Native Son
Hatred is poison, this is one of the major lesson that James Baldwin was trying to get across in his story "Notes of a Native son". Baldwin's father always had hatred in his heart that o matter what he did he always, seemed angry and mean , a hatred person. he would lie that he was proud of his blackness but he was mostly humiliated about it. he would try to do all the nice things for his children to try to be a good father, but at the end he would always look like an angry, hateful person. he would try to play with the his children and he would end up bad, the child would cry out of fear that his father looked angry. When he tried helping one of the child with doing their homework they would become tense and they would paralyze

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