Discussion Questions
James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room
4/5/18 Passages for Close Reading: 1) “I stand at the window of this great house” … “It will all be the same, only it will be stiller” (Part I, chapter one, beginning, 4) 2) “Then we sat in silence for a while, smoking cigarettes... human tangle occuring everywhere, without end, forever.” (67-68) (part I, chapter 3) 3) “I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea… metamorphosis which my memorizing had helped to bring about” (81) (Part II, chapter 1, beginning) 4) “The beast which Giovanni had awakened in me.... Which was nourished by the same roots” (91) (Part II, chapter 1, ending). Discussion questions:
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