“Gabriel.stood enormous, in the center of the room.John stood just before him.beneath his fist, his heavy shoe” (Baldwin). Gabriel, Roy’s blood father, comes home and immediately John is scared for what punishments lie ahead.
Roy eventually comes home with a gash above his eye and John gets the blame for Roy’s injury. Although Roy knows better than to go down to the rockpile, he decides to go. In fact, each Saturday morning, Roy and John perch themselves on the fire escape and watch the violent actions below them at the rock pile.
The short story opens with a brief description of the forbidden rock pile down the street. After reading the short story,“The RockPile”, by James Baldwin, it is found that a religious family lives in Harlem, and the father of the family enforces unfair penalties on his son John.
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