I am Cripple

In James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, the author describes a complex troubled relationship with is father. Baldwin’s attitude towards his father reflects his father actions and how his father acts. Baldwin’s attitudes towards his father was stubborn. Baldwin disliked his father. Baldwin says he had not known his father “very well. We had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride.” (51) Baldwin shows him and his father not getting alone due to both of their stubborn attitudes. Since Baldwin had a grudge against his father, his attitude towards his father was angry and upset. Baldwin didn’t hate his father he just wanted to “hold on to his hatred.”(62) Baldwin’s attitude towards his father reflects the way his father acts towards him. Baldwin’s attitude towards his father becomes slightly different as he reminisces the times he had with his father when he was a child. Baldwin remembers being at church "sitting on his knee, in the hot enormous crowded church.” (66) Baldwin shows one of his good memories with his father. Baldwin remembers he was taken to the barbershop and he began to cry, his father "soothed his crying and applied the stinging iodine.” (66) Baldwin remembers as he was growing up him and his father had sweet and lovable moments with each other. In James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, the author describes a complex troubled relationship with is father. Baldwin’s attitude towards his father reflects his father actions and how his father acts. Baldwin’s attitudes towards his father was stubborn. Baldwin disliked his father. Baldwin says he had not known his father “very well. We had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride.” (51) Baldwin shows him and his father not getting alone due to both of their stubborn attitudes. Since Baldwin had a grudge against his father, his attitude towards his father was angry and upset. Baldwin didn’t