I think that his last act of violence was to try to obtain some power he couldn’t get from his father. He was also trying to hurt someone like his father hurt him. The relationship between Noah and Lamar was one based on hatred. This hatred led to Lamar finally shoving his father’s head into a furnace.The short story “Note of a Native Son,” was about the author’s relationship with his father and the hatred that James Baldwin’s father and himself both possessed. James Baldwin never really knew his father intimately. He lived with him throughout his childhood, but they hadn’t really spoken. His relationship with his father was almost non-existent. They didn’t communicate. I think this left a void in his heart. He had not spoken to or even really appreciated someone whom was probably a great person. The relationship between a father and a son is very important. It can lead to a lot of different things, positive or negative. Still it depends on the person the son is. A bad relationship can cause a child to be a killer, a person with low self-esteem, or a world-renowned writer....
