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1. Jan 27,  · Directed by Stan Lathan. With Paul Winfield, James Bond III, Olivia Cole, Rodrick F. Wimberly. This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather/10(4).

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2. Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in , is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic.4/5.

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3. “Go, Tell It On the Mountain” is an African-American spiritual song dating back to the mid 19th century. The song is also considered a Christmas carol because of the lyrical content.

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4. In the Bible, the mountain often represents the holy presence of God. Moses has to go up the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments and to see the Promised Land. In the Gospel, Jesus is transfigured on a mountain, an event signifying the full embodiment of the divine nature and holiness of Christ.

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5. The long, unbroken opening section of Go Tell It on the Mountain presents the action from the meditative standpoint of an adolescent with a much-burdened mind; there is a lot going on in his life and in this book. John finds himself engaged in several fundamental struggles that are also, in his case, fundamentally inextricable.

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6. Thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail involves walking 2, miles from Mexico to Canada. The journey lasts from April to October. That translates into about 20 miles a day, every day—on foot. These brave souls face bone-dry deserts, raging rivers, snow-covered mountain passes, mosquitoes, blisters, torrential rains and the urge to quit.

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7. This book "Go Tell It on the Mountain" as of now, is one of my favorites by James Baldwin. The story depicts a family from Harlem with unwavering, Christian values, and yet bears the inner- demons of their past. Seeking redemption is never easy, and especially for the patriarch, Reverend Gabriel Grimes/5().

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8. James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain is set in Harlem in , some twenty years into America’s Great Migration. After the Civil War and the end of slavery in , the country entered the Reconstruction Era, in which African Americans were finally .

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