Review Of Giovanni's Room By James Baldwin

Cast Your Fate to the Wind
As a junior in high school, I sometimes have difficulty comprehending the texts I get assigned from various classes. Although my homework load may not be overwhelming, the spectrum of subjects interact with each other instead of staying in their own place. As my daily life entangles itself, my train of thought crosses dimensions rather than just a railroad. I think David could agree with this. I read his thoughts as dense, repetitive, and scrambled. James Baldwin, the author of Giovanni’s Room, portrays the glimpse of events that we see from David’s life in an meta-physical manner. The settings of each scene do not leave an impact on me like they should when I close my book for the night. Instead, I hold on to the intense analyzation of everything David shares with his audience. Despite my physical and emotional priorities, his thoughts stay in my head and I notice myself overthinking his consciousness like I do with my own. Although there are times where I find his extreme insight a bit overwhelming, I have discovered haunting similarities between the way David and I think. And because of the way we think, I worry that I will one
Rather than the text on the pages, the theme of emotional isolation that Baldwin exhales fills my nose--whether I like it or not. David lacks the ability of decision making because of his infatuation with the same problems and how he lets them eat him alive. However, this absence of an internal solution does not have the right to reflect directly on David’s character. His analysis of every subtle action only proves that he sees the world in a way most people don’t pay attention to. I wouldn’t say indecision makes David an unmotivated person because he has trouble reaching conclusions; I think this just means he’s nervous. This nervous characteristic that David eludes through analysis is the root of our