Baldwin’s evidence is very personal. Since “Notes of a Native Son” is a personal account of his life, the entire writing is

Baldwin uses a good amount of historical evidence in his writing. Baldwin’s story is happening during the time of the Harlem race riots and during Jim Crow laws. “She did not ask me what I wanted, but repeated, as though she had learned it somewhere, ‘We don’t serve Negroes here.’ She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown accustomed, but rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear. This made me colder and more murderous than ever.” Here Baldwin is at the point closest to where he almost becomes consumed by hatred. He talks about wanting the woman to get close enough to him so he could choke her. Unable to do so, he throws a water pitcher at her and a mob pursues. Because of the incident, he has an epiphany and it scares him. “I could not get over two facts, both equally difficult for the imagination to grasp, and one was that I could have been murdered. But the other was that I had been ready to commit murder. I saw nothing very clearly but I did see this: that my life my real life, was in danger and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.” (Baldwin’s emphasis) Because this evidence that Baldwin presents is from a time that a lot of people lived through, and those who didn’t know a lot about it, it is easier to understand. Baldwin’s evidence is learned in high school history classes and therefore is known by more people. The more knowledge you have on a subject the more easily your brain absorbs and understands perhaps another person’s view on such a subject.

In the midst of all the crazy sporadic evidence you would see that Walker uses a poem by Okot p’Bitek. During my research of p’Bitek, I learned that he was often criticized by other African writers for not adequately addressing Africa’s problems. I found this interesting because in Baldwin’s writing he mentions Louis Armstrong. Baldwin’s father despised Armstrong. Armstrong was frowned upon by some African Americans because during a time when African Americans were struggling for equal liberties and equal ri

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