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Amen Corner Review
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Amen Corner Review
Name of the Student
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Author’s Note
AMEN CORNER REVIEW1
The Amen Corner is the first-ever dramatic play by the much-celebrated playwright,
essayist and novelist, who is African-American, James Baldwin, who had written the play during
the year of 1950 (Gale). The play performed first on the professional stage in the year 1965 and
the year 1968, the play was published first.
The Amen Corner is placed in the two settings such as the corner, the church in the
Harlem and the Margaret Anderson's dwelling apartment, the pastor of the church and Margaret's
son David and her sister Odessa. After providing the fiery Sunday sermon of the morning, the
lady Margaret has faced the unexpected arrival of her husband, Luke, who is long estranged. He
collapsed shortly from the illness thereafter. From Luke, their son David and few numbers of
elder's congregation have learned that, while their mother Margaret has led every person for
believing that their father had broken the relationship with their mother with them many years
ago (Turner, Susan Watson). This was in the fact of Margaret, who left her husband, Luke, for
pursuing the purely religious life with her children. This information, which caused the
confrontations among the lady Margaret, David her son, her husband Luke and her congregation
about the factors they had seen in the hypocritical nature of the convictions of the religions that
Margaret has used for justifying the breakup of the family (Johnson, Autumn, et al.). After the
important conversation with his father, who was dying, David had informed his mother,
Margaret that he wanted to leave home for pursuing the calling as the jazz musician. On the
deathbed, his father Luke had declared to his mother Margaret that he loved her always and she
should not even leave him. Eventually, the congregation of Margaret had decided for ousting her,
which was based on the perception, which she ruined unjustly the own family in the religion
name. After losing her son David, her husband Luke and her congregation, the lady Margaret had
realized that she never should use the religion as the excuse for escaping the struggle of love and
The Amen Corner is the first-ever dramatic play by the much-celebrated playwright,
essayist and novelist, who is African-American, James Baldwin, who had written the play during
the year of 1950 (Gale). The play performed first on the professional stage in the year 1965 and
the year 1968, the play was published first.
The Amen Corner is placed in the two settings such as the corner, the church in the
Harlem and the Margaret Anderson's dwelling apartment, the pastor of the church and Margaret's
son David and her sister Odessa. After providing the fiery Sunday sermon of the morning, the
lady Margaret has faced the unexpected arrival of her husband, Luke, who is long estranged. He
collapsed shortly from the illness thereafter. From Luke, their son David and few numbers of
elder's congregation have learned that, while their mother Margaret has led every person for
believing that their father had broken the relationship with their mother with them many years
ago (Turner, Susan Watson). This was in the fact of Margaret, who left her husband, Luke, for
pursuing the purely religious life with her children. This information, which caused the
confrontations among the lady Margaret, David her son, her husband Luke and her congregation
about the factors they had seen in the hypocritical nature of the convictions of the religions that
Margaret has used for justifying the breakup of the family (Johnson, Autumn, et al.). After the
important conversation with his father, who was dying, David had informed his mother,
Margaret that he wanted to leave home for pursuing the calling as the jazz musician. On the
deathbed, his father Luke had declared to his mother Margaret that he loved her always and she
should not even leave him. Eventually, the congregation of Margaret had decided for ousting her,
which was based on the perception, which she ruined unjustly the own family in the religion
name. After losing her son David, her husband Luke and her congregation, the lady Margaret had
realized that she never should use the religion as the excuse for escaping the struggle of love and
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