Gabriel, the father, slaps Elizabeth, the mother, for not keeping her kids safe. His mother, father, Aunt Florence, and little sisters are all there, super upset because Roy has been stabbed. John spends his money at the movie theatre to watch a movie that his father would be sure to find sinful.Īfter the movies, John goes back home to find his brother, Roy, bleeding on the couch. He takes off and heads out of Harlem into Central Park. When he's done with his chores, John's mother, Elizabeth, gives him money and tells him to go buy something he'd like. Ouch.īut: surprise, surprise, she remembered. His mom gives him breakfast and tells him to go sweep the living room, just like every Saturday. John Grimes wakes up on his fourteenth birthday, a Saturday, but no one in his family remembers that it's his big day. Go Tell it on the Mountain is a novel that does a ton of looping back into characters' memories through the form of flashbacks, but let's just get the basic storyline straight (without those pesky trips down Memory Lane).
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