Her sense of reality is dictated by the society's assumptions, which also becomes her own, of her inferiority' This play is heart breaking and the introduction by Baldwin really makes it clear just how little freedom is enjoyed by the african american population at large. She is in the church because her society has left her no other place to go. 'No one yet knows, or is in the least prepared to speculate on, how high a bill we will yet have to pay for what we have done to Negro men and women. As BaldwinвЂ™s play closes the reader learns that there are few heroes in this drama but there are definitely antagonists, and it may not be the people you expect.more It causes church members not to see their pastors as people with human frailties and it causes pastors to place stringent rules on their congregation who in turn feel itвЂ™s impossible to be a Christian in a mostly secular world. The play teaches us the downsides of fundamentalism. The elders of the church do not like these developments and now believe that Sister Margaret herself is not living and did not live the life she is preaching about and as the quotes above suggest, the elders feel compelled to take action.Д«aldwin has written a powerful play which I had the pleasure of seeing performed recently. This all changes when a person from Sister MargaretвЂ™s past comes to the forefront and causes a rupture to develop in the church and in Sister MargaretвЂ™s own family. The church loves their pastor especially the Amen Corner which is made up of three elders of the church, Brother Boxer, Sister Boxer, and Sister Moore. She chastises a church member who is considering taking a job driving a liquor truck and tells a young female parishioner with a sick baby to leave her husband because he doesnвЂ™t go to church. This tragedy unfolds on a Sunday morning when the pastor of the church, Sister Margaret, preaches her fundamentalist sermon on living holy and righteous. James BaldwinвЂ™s The Amen Corner is a dramatic play that tells the story of a Black Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem in the 1950s, but the story could have been told about any Black Church in any region of the country in 21st Century America. вЂњItвЂ™s time for her to come down.вЂќ вЂ“Sister Moore вЂњShe done gone too far, she done got too high.вЂќ вЂ“Brother Boxer This tragedy unfolds on a Sunday morning when the pastor of t This review is also published on Medium. вЂњShe done gone too far, she done got too high.вЂќ вЂ“Brother Boxer вЂњItвЂ™s time for her to come down.вЂќ вЂ“Sister Moore James BaldwinвЂ™s The Amen Corner is a dramatic play that tells the story of a Black Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem in the 1950s, but the story could have been told about any Black Church in any region of the country in 21st Century America. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.more The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.ДЇor years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. For y Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner.

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