African American People To Go To This Village By James Baldwin

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The summary for this reading is that James Baldwin was the first African American people to go to this village. He was working in a village which located on the top of a mountain that what not very easy to access. This village is very small and only have a few grocery shops. The main attraction for this village is in the summer when people come and visited the hot spring, but the major tourist are crippled or nearly cripples. His main point in this story is that even though people which different trait are still human and they need to be treated as human. At first, he was feeling very uncomfortable when he moves in the village, but after a while living in the village, he gets familiar with all the people in the village. People would make

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