![]() He first uses fire as a metaphor when describing his sexual awakening. The image of fire helps Baldwin to illustrate key moments in his text. The image of the "wall" recurs when he discusses the ways in which he and his peers felt trapped in and limited by the expectations and prejudices of the white world around them. Instead, Baldwin is left only with the path to the church. Most poignantly, he discusses the ways in which his own fears divided him from many potential paths by drawing on the image of a wall that rises "between the world and me." This image helps readers to understand just how intractable Baldwin's fears could be when he was an adolescent they felt so solid and real to him that he compares them to a wall, preventing him from taking a number of paths. ![]() Baldwin refers to walls when discussing the limitations faced by black boys in America. ![]()
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