My response to James Baldwin's "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare"

Every writer has strived to be as great as James Patterson, Stephen King, or Shakespeare himself. Some saw him as an man of chauvinism while others believed that he was a fake and that he wasn't a playwright at all. However, James Baldwin, a man who once hated Shakespeare, opened his mind and changed his opinion about the poet. At first, James was intimidated by Shakespeare's grace in writing and believe that no one would be able to write in the style of he spoke and surpass him in excellence. James didn't like him in the beginning either because he believed that Shakespeare was one of the people who started the oppression against the back community, and as a black individual, James didn't fancy this.

As James learned the French language, he became more intrigued with Shakespeare. He struggled learning the language because it didn't show any of his experience as a black man. As James learned more of the language, he learned that Shakespeare and French both had something in common; open honest, irony, density, its beat, and its authority. Both Shakespeare and Jazz dealt with sexual matters as a comedy which Badwin grew to love. As James began to learn more of Shakespeare, he came to realized that it was a relationship with his past self. James began to be inspired by Shakespeare becase of the way he spreads joy, entertainment, and his life throughout the world for many to read his poems and playrwrights for generations to come.