Americas Ignorance :: Americas Ignorance

the Statess IgnoranceAmericas Ignorance For centuries now, men and women have struggled over their sexuality. It has been noted throughout season that several well known and highly regarded historical figures have been foreswear with their sexuality on both sides of the spectrum. Basic onlyy, transgender tendencies have been accepted as a normal part of life in that it has never been regarded as wrong. Only now in our new environment as Americans does the idea of homosexuality bring uncomfort and distaste to people. In fact, American has almost pushed the homosexual populous underground where they now reside as somewhat of a subculture. Americans have put a huge strain on the unfearing community by persecuting them and demanding that their way of life is wrong. This phenomenon is particularly prevalent in the center of attention class American society at least it was a lot more in the past. The novel Giovannis Room, written by James Baldwin, depicts a young man caught in the troublesome situation of being a rattling American in the middle twentieth century. The character, David, accepts his homosexuality as a boy, exclusively soon learns that his sexual demeanour is highly frowned upon by most Americans. With this understanding of homosexual resentment in America, David sets off for Paris in search of an escape from the turmoils that lay at home. David cannot and does not accept his homosexuality because of the ingrained middle class American attitude towards homosexuals.Davids father, although not resentful of gay people, wants David to become a man. A man in the classic backbone of a man, and certainly not a homosexual manAnd listen, tell my father suddenly, from the middle of the staircase, in a voice which frightened me, all I want for David is that he grows up to be a man. And when I say man, Ellen, I dont mean a sunlight school teacher. Davids father was not suggesting that David was not a man, but our society has set forth prec onceived notions about what it means to be a man. When David heard this from his father, he felt as though by being gay, he was somehow disappointing his father. This idea certainly affright David into thinking that his homosexual feelings were bad. Later in Paris, David was able to escape the form tension that he felt, but his worries still lingered and he fought to become the soulfulness that he thought he should be