![]() Indeed, Elizabeth, Roy and John's mother, defends John from his father's unfair punishments because John is only treated unfairly because he is not Gabriel’s blood son, and he reflects …show more content… Because Roy is Gabriel’s real son, Gabriel tenderly cares for Roy when he disobeyes the rules and gets hurt. ![]() ![]() “Gabriel.stood enormous, in the center of the room.John stood just before him.beneath his fist, his heavy shoe” (Baldwin). Gabriel, Roy’s blood father, comes home and immediately John is scared for what punishments lie ahead. Roy eventually comes home with a gash above his eye and John gets the blame for Roy’s injury. Although Roy knows better than to go down to the rockpile, he decides to go. In fact, each Saturday morning, Roy and John perch themselves on the fire escape and watch the violent actions below them at the rock pile. ![]() The short story opens with a brief description of the forbidden rock pile down the street. After reading the short story,“The RockPile”, by James Baldwin, it is found that a religious family lives in Harlem, and the father of the family enforces unfair penalties on his son John. ![]()
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