ow beginning to affect and hurt other people was beginning to make him think about death. That is why when he stood by the river he thought of dying. He says, "I had though of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but it would have been for revenge, it would have been my way of informing the world how awfully it had made me suffer." (Pg. 136) David begins to reflect on all his decisions that he had made, but by this time, it was too late. He was never ever certain of reality. For him, his reality was nothing comprised of nothing. By the time Giovanni is sentenced to the guillotine, David begins to feel sorrow. He begins to reflect back on all the things that he had done. And that is when he realizes that he really did love Giovanni. James Baldwin takes us back into the beginning of the novel, when David is in the house after Hella has left and he is peering out through the window of his porch. This whole thing had been reflected from the past. A man's life had changed in many ways from the beginning of the novel we just did not know it. If David could have just confronted his fears, he might have realized that he was not afraid of anything but fear itself. The other novel that I would like to go into, is Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison and James Baldwin are similar types of writers. Because they both like to give you the present before they explain the past. Toni starts the novel off telling you that Pecola Breedlove is about to have her father's baby. And using Claudia to narrate in an adult reflective child's voice. This allows you as a reader to reflect on your childhood as well. And to see how it can be connected to adult life. You as a reader are not trying to decipher what incidents occurred, but how they occurred. And every character that Toni Morrison brings out in this novel expresses some form of past connection as to the reasons why they are the way that they are, and the ...
