![]() ![]() ![]() This year, they've chartered a boat to take to Bear Mountain. In "The Outing," Johnnie, Roy, and Johnnie's friend and lover David join their congregation on the annual group outing. Gabriel favors Roy because Johnnie was fathered by a different man, before his mother married Gabriel. Despite the fact that it's only a minor wound, when their father Gabriel returns home, he overreacts and scapegoats Johnnie. Roy is caught in the middle of a fight and catches a tin can to the face, resulting in a bleeding wound. Despite his mother's explicit orders, and Johnnie's appeals to reason, Roy climbs down the fire escape to play on the giant rockpile between two houses on their block. In "The Rockpile," Johnnie and his little brother Roy are left alone in their apartment one afternoon while their mother visits a neighbor's place. The following are short summaries of each of the eight stories that appear in the anthology. The situation is made even harder for those whose sexuality falls outside the norm. ![]() ![]() But for all of these characters, we see that America, according to Baldwin, is entirely unsafe and nearly unlivable for a black person. Some of the characters live in New York City, or in the case of the one celebrity protagonist, have fled the United States to live in France. James Baldwin's 1965 anthology of stories " Going to Meet the Man" explores the lives of characters living in or otherwise connected to the American South. ![]()
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