I think that James Baldwin was trying portray a message to his reader. What I believe that he was trying to say that students should think more outside the box, think more critically. That there is much more to the world, history then what you see in the eye which should give students a reason to explore more. To have better understanding of America’s history and to examine it, to answer questions that one has been thinking about. James Baldwin is trying to say that understanding America’s history is very important for students to understand, so in future the same mistakes won’t happen again and to learn from those mistakes from the past. I think what he means when he says the world is larger is that to point out there are other things going on in the world that could/is being caused that happened in the course of America’s history. I am kinda curious about examining how America got where it is today. Throughout high school I never really was taught much about history mainly because as I was learning US history, it was the same time when the pandemic became a thing. I am also interested on how technology has developed overtime and what was the cause of rapid development in technology. Technology now is way more advanced now then it was 100 years ago and I want to explore more into that and see what has truly happened during this time period.
