Everybody's Protest Novel, By James Baldwin

Through his manipulation of relationships and religious tensions throughout his novels, James Baldwin effectively highlights his belief that true relations and trust can only be realized through acceptance of difficulties and differences. Baldwin promises redemption and relief through acceptance of divine justice and admission of sins. At the same time, the suffering was caused by the sin and oppression of thought are the sources of the suffering (Welsh). In "Everybody’s Protest Novel,” Baldwin writes:
But our humanity is our burden, our life; we need not battle for; we need only to do what is infinitely more difficult—that is, accept it. The faith of the present novel lies in its rejection of life, the human being, the denial of his beauty,