Common Power In Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin talks about the force that can be found in commonness and in religion. The tale begins with John Grimes awakening to his fourteenth birthday celebration in Harlem, 1935. The whole novel traverses a couple of days, yet as the story advances, Baldwin utilizes stretched out flashback parts to relate the lives of Johns father Gabriel Grimes and his auntie Florence, enumerating their encounters and how it transformed them into who they are in right now. As the novel advances, John's encounters with the congregation and in the city, alongside the recollections of Gabriel and Florence, clarify that there are two wellsprings of intensity that can be found in the novel. Through their encounters, James Baldwin builds up that people can accomplish force and glory in secularism, not simply through religion and God. John's recognition of the attendees of the customer facing facade church his dad lectures at uncovers to him the force that people can use.
