![]() ![]() *The characters are the same as in Baldwin's earlier novel, " Go Tell It on the Mountain". * Richard, a boy who drowned in the Bronx river. * Delilah, Elizabeth and Gabriel's daughter. * John, Elizabeth's elder illegitimate son. * Roy, Elizabeth and Gabriel's son who gets hurt on the rockpile. ![]() He is brought back into the house and as the father gets home, he tries to blame the women and John and Roy from going there, thus suggesting that he spoils the boy. There he gets into a fight and gets hurt, starts bleeding. Whilst Roy and John are forbidden to play on the Rockpile as the other boys from the neighborhood do, Roy decides to go anyway once, asking John not to tell anyone as he will be right back. ![]() "The Rockpile" is a 1965 short story by James Baldwin, taken from the short story collection, " Going to Meet the Man". ![]()
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