The problem of the ideal entity

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a semi-autobiographical novel by American James Baldwin, published in 1953. The novel examines the role of the Christian church in the lives of African Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a force of inspiration and community. It also, more subtly, examines racism in the United States.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Ve and Dilo on 39th Mountain on its list of the 100 best novels in twentieth-century English. Time magazine included the novel in its list of one hundred best novels published in English between 1923 and 2005.

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The first chapter tells the story of John, a young African American boy in Harlem in the 1930s. John has been raised by his mother Elizabeth and her husband preacher Gabriel, who is John's legal father and is strict and offensive to his two sons and his wife. Gabriel's religious philosophy is hard and one of salvation through faith in Jesus, without which one is condemned to hell. John hates his father and dreams of hurting him or killing him and running away. The characters are members of the Temple of Fire church baptized in Harlem, a Pentecostal Protestant denomination.

Florence's prayer tells the story of his life. He was born of a freed slave who chose to continue working in the South for a white family. His mother always favored Florence's younger brother Gabriel, which made Florence feel a desire to escape her life. Disgusted by the sexual harassment of her boss, Florence buys an idea ticket to New York and leaves her mother on her deathbed with Gabriel. In New York, Florence marries a dissolute man named Frank, which resulted in a power struggle within his marriage that ends after ten years when Frank leaves a niche and never returns. Later she died in France during World War I, but Florence only discovers this thanks to Frank's girlfriend.

Gabriel's prayer begins with a description of his drunken style and adolescent flirtation, before his rebirth in Christ and the beginning of his career as a preacher. After her conversion, she formed a relationship with a childhood friend of Florence, a slightly older woman in her town named Deborah who was raped in a teenage group by a group of white men. Deborah is devout in her faith, and Gabriel uses his strength to become a famous reverend himself. However, despite his religious convictions, Gabriel is unable to resist his physical attraction to a woman named Esther. Esther and Gabriel work for the same white family. Gabriel has a brief affair with her but then puts an end to it. When Esther discovers that she is pregnant, Gabriel steals the savings of his wife and gives them Esther to silence the matter and to allow Esther leaves to have its son; she leaves for Chicago but dies giving birth to her son, Royal. Royal knows his father but knows nothing about their relationship, and eventually dies in a bar fight in Chicago. Gabriel is unable to stop the death of his son. Deborah, who knew or suspected that Royal was the son of her husband from the beginning, warns Gabriel before his death to leave Esther and his son.

Elizabeth's prayer, the shortest of the three, tells her story. As a young woman, she was very close to her father, but when her father died, she was forced by a court order to live with a cold and dominant aunt, and then moved to New York with a friend of her aunt who is a spiritualist medium. It is revealed that Gabriel is not the biological father of John, since Elizabeth had gone to New York with her boyfriend, Richard, a self-taught "sinner" who did not believe in the church and who never fulfilled his promise to marry Elizabeth. They arrest Richard for a robbery that he has not committed, and although he

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