The Fire Next Time
How does the lack of anger in the author's writing in "Down at the Cross" tie in thematically to the essay?
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There is the sense here, in both the writing and the ideas being written about, that without strong emotion there is room for a more dispassionate perspective, an opportunity to see what can and should be done uncolored or unaffected by a raw, explosive an emotional desire for something, anything, to happen.