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maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen? But that's really a terrible thought. It can only come out of trouble – trouble that doesn't make sense. Today, I went to see Fonny. That's not his name, either, he was christened Alonzo: and it might make sense if people called him Lonnie.
Barry Jenkins’s 2018 film adaptation of the book garnered critical praise and dozens of nominations and awards. Read the full book summary, the full story analysis, and explanations of important quotes from If Beale Street Could Talk.
Female Narrator. In If Beale Street Could Talk, Baldwin writes a novel from a woman’s perspective for the first time, making Tish his first female narrator.
Tish is the narrator of the novel. She is nineteen, and she serves as a deeply empathetic and perceptive narrator. Trudier Harris, in "The Eye as a Weapon in If Beale Street Could Talk," notes that "Tish's innocence, along with her natural abilities at perception, draw the reader into the story and encourage empathy with her."
Tish is the narrator and protagonist of If Beale Street Could Talk. The novel traces her struggle with the imprisonment of her fiancé, Fonny, as well as the events of the past that brought the characters to the events in the present.
Beale Street is the first Baldwin novel to focus exclusively on a Black love story; it is also the only novel in his corpus narrated by a woman. Published at the tail end of the Black Arts Movement, it explores love within Black life, centering on the emotional bonds holding two African American families together. [4]
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The narration moves between the present day and the past, a mix of Tish’s first-person voice and third-person omniscient narration. The second, much shorter, section of the novel is titled “Zion.”
