James Baldwins Go Tell It On the Mountain and Alice Sebolds The Lovel

James Baldwins Go set up It On the Mountain and Alice Sebolds The sweet Bones In most religions, especi completelyy the Judeo-Christian faith, heaven or the after animation is a place reserved for those who be able to someway earn or receive an appointed place there during their life on earth. In the Christian tradition, those who get eternal life are able to forgo the earthly pleasures that tempt them while they live, and form a separate entity that rejects carnality and remains obedient to God. While recognizing themselves as inherently sinful creatures, they seek to come as close as they mountain to the holiness of the bode during their life on earth, in order to quarter the benefits after death. A separation from the world and an eventual union with the divine is seen as the ultimate goal of the believer. Life is but a mover to a final spiritual end. James Baldwins brisk Go Tell It On the Mountain effectively portrays these ideas through the lives of its many char acters. In contrast to the Christian idea of rejecting carnality while alive to attain salvation, Alice Sebold uses her novel The Lovely Bones to portray coming of age as developing an ability to embrace life and succeed in it in spite of the pain and evil it can contain, and to see life as a fleeting privilege that, lived well, is an ultimate goal in itself. One most-valuable issue that distinguishes the differences between the perspectives of the two novels is that of forgiveness and rejection. In Go Tell It On the Mountain, judgment of sinners is highly emphasized, even if the sinners in questions are family members. one time someone becomes saved, they are expected to reject each ties associated with the world. In Baldwins novel, the protagonist reflects that, h... ...t life for both the joy and pain it inflicts on all people. To Sebold, the divine can and is present in carnality. While the word has a traditionally negative connotation, here it is representativ e of all that is associated with life itself. In this novel, carnality is not sin it is living. Alice Sebold presents a moving and telling novel of loss and gain, despair and great happiness. To her, the ability to live life, and the willingness to accept it, are the marks of maturity, and the definition of manage. While Susie, alone in heaven, cannot live as her family does, she comes of age as she releases them to their lives and moves on in her own world without them. The commentator knows, as the novel closes with Susies parting words, that their protagonist is at peace, and that love has indeed won out over despair. I wish you all a long and happy life.