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Part I (Introduction - The Red Caboose, XI - 51)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Broome, Brian. Punch Me Up to the Gods. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2021.

• This book is written from the first person perspective and in the past tense unless otherwise noted.

• In the Introduction, by Yona Harvey, which is written in the present tense, Harvey writes of the writer James Baldwin's gifts and influence.

• Baldwin died in 1987, and many writers praised him at his memorial service.

• Baldwin was Black and gay, and he wrote about racism and about being an outsider.

• Baldwin wrote about the fear of judgement by others, and Harvey draws parallels between Baldwin's focus as a writer and Broome's focus as a writer.

• Harvey calls Broome's take on his own life path and experiences "unsentimental, unapologetic recollections of the past" (XIII).

• Harvey also spend...

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