What is the most obvious statement James Baldwin is trying to make in Giovanni’s Room?  What sort of attitudes, feelings, assumptions does the novel attribute to part of its audience?  What does it strive to create? How might Giovanni’

Answer the following prompts with at least two well-constructed paragraphs for each prompt.No AI detection.  Your answer to each prompt needs to include at least two pieces of textual evidence/ QUOTES. to support your answer.  All sub questions in the prompt must be addressed in your answer.
What is the most obvious statement James Baldwin is trying to make in Giovanni’s Room?  What sort of attitudes, feelings, assumptions does the novel attribute to part of its audience?  What does it strive to create?
How might Giovanni’s Room also tend to create the attitudes, feelings, assumptions it strives to reduce or remove?  That is, how does the novel do contradictory things?  How does this conflict influence its effectiveness?
Look closely at the details of the novel and how they reveal (a deconstruction insists all texts must) what is being excluded or suppressed.  For example, what does the triangle of David, Hella, and Giovanni acknowledge?  How does the opposition of love versus disgust divide and complicate the triangle?
In each of your well-constructed two paragraph responses to the above prompts, you must answer all the sub questions using two pieces of textual evidence to Meet Expectations.  To Exceed Expectations, you must answer each of the above prompts with three well-constructed paragraphs and three pieces of textual evidence.