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James Baldwin: Previous Condition STRUCTURE

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CONTENTS Previous (WHAT IS SAID?) Condition

FUNCTION (WHY IS IT SAID? WHAT IS IT SAID FOR)

to point out the importance of the past

EXPOSITION FLASHBACK

Peter in a furnished rooming house in a white area waiting to be turned out to introduce the reader to the protagonist and his situation

Peter’s fist and crucial experience of racial discrimination at the age of 7: color shock to reveal his history of racial discrimination

RETROSPECTIVE/ DIALOGUE REFLECTIVE PASSAGE WITH THE LANDLADY The survival mech- Peter is kicked out anisms Peter has developed in order to survive in a racist society and the devastating effect they have had on him to show that peter to prove can’t fit into white continuity in the disAmerican Society if he wants to stay crimination he exsane periences

DIALOGUE

DIALOGUE WITH IDA & PETER They try to comfort Peter but fail because of their lack of understanding

ENDING

WITH JULES AND PETER

to demonstrate his increasing loneliness and the impossibility to go on living like he used to

Peter in a Harlem (black part of town) bar

to illustrate his need of redefining himself: that he tries to forget his past and that he has to manage his future alone...