<P> Baldwin paints a vivid recollection of his time growing up with a paranoid father who was dying of tuberculosis , and his initial experience with Jim Crow style segregation . Prior to his father 's death , Baldwin was befriended by a white teacher whom his father disapproved of . Later he worked in New Jersey and was often turned down in segregated places -- Baldwin recalls a time he hurled a cup half full of water at a waitress in a diner only to realize his actions could have dire consequences . He goes on to say that blacks participating in military service in the South often got abused . Finally , he recounts his father 's death which occurred just before his mother gave birth to one of his sisters ; his father 's funeral was on his 19th birthday and the Harlem Riot of 1943 . This essay is an attempt to do away with the hatred and despair he feels towards his father . </P>
<P> Baldwin paints a vivid recollection of his time growing up with a paranoid father who was dying of tuberculosis , and his initial experience with Jim Crow style segregation . Prior to his father 's death , Baldwin was befriended by a white teacher whom his father disapproved of . Later he worked in New Jersey and was often turned down in segregated places -- Baldwin recalls a time he hurled a cup half full of water at a waitress in a diner only to realize his actions could have dire consequences . He goes on to say that blacks participating in military service in the South often got abused . Finally , he recounts his father 's death which occurred just before his mother gave birth to one of his sisters ; his father 's funeral was on his 19th birthday and the Harlem Riot of 1943 . This essay is an attempt to do away with the hatred and despair he feels towards his father . </P>
what takes place on the narrator 's 19th birthday notes of a native son
what takes place on the narrator 's 19th birthday notes of a native son
his father 's funeral
his father 's funeral