Baldwin's Autobiographical Analysis

In Baldwin’s Autobiographical Notes, the first two paragraphs give the bare bones of his early life. He grew up in poverty and started to quickly developed an interest in reading and writing. He also discusses the effect of being born African American on him as a writer and as a person. Baldwin writes that the things which help cannot be divorced from each other. Baldwin demonstrates through his life story that the negro problem can be solved. It shows the readers that people can’t change everything but we can’t change anything until we try to change it.