This soldier might even live with a French family, thus encouraging a deeper enculturation. The more successful soldier, on the other hand, takes the time to study the history and culture of France. When the reality of Paris hits them, Baldwin believes, it is then that they buy their tickets to go back home. They have little real knowledge of the history of France, the sociology of its people, or an understanding of the language.
Some soldiers, he claims, have an imaginary, or ideal, concept of Paris in their minds. Journey to Atlanta 6 Baldwin concludes that the conflict that the soldiers must deal with is based on the clash between reality and fantasy. He studies the question of why some of the soldiers are successful in adapting to their lives in France and why some are not.
Here he examines American soldiers living in Paris, studying at the universities on the G. In one of his essays included in the book, “A Question of Identity,” he talks about the search of the various ways that Americans in the American student groups in Paris relate to European and their own culture. Through his work, the conditions of being an African American living in a society with racial discrimination are told firsthand. In Baldwin’s collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, tells the reader about the social environment in the United States during the Civil Rights Movement.
However, jobs were still strictly segregated by gender and repetitive routine work was considered women’s work. Additionally, during this period banking, textile and light industries also expanded and provided women with opportunities in clerical, secretarial and assembly work. For example, the state created many job opportunities, which were seen as “women’s work.” These jobs were available for nurses, midwives, cleaners and clerical staff. Therefore, for groups that were discriminated against in the past, particularly women and blacks, World War II was a provocative model for future change. However, the minorities did not agree with that and they wanted to work and be as equals again, since everyone was equally important and needed on the battlefield. When the war ended, people wanted women and black people to go back to their previous positions in society. During the war, men and women, black and white, played equally important roles. During this time period, the 1950’s, many things in society changed.
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