Go Tell It On The Mountain, by James Baldwin, is enriched with Biblical references that bring to mind the spirit of the black Church and a realism that brings you back to Harlem in the 1930s. Throughout the book, the Grimes family turns to the Church in times of despair. These indications of God in the book show us the life of a black person in the 1930s. <Tab/>In Bruce …showed first 75 words of 718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 718 total…story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North." The use of black religion gave a unique view of Baldwin's life. <Tab/>In conclusion, in James Baldwin's novel Go Tell It On The Mountain, he uses the book of the Church to, in a way, tell the story. By doing that, he brought a type of flare into his writing and made his work more interesting to read.