The ways in which the names of the following characters illuminate their roles in the text: John, Roy, Gabriel, Elizabeth, and Elisha in the novel "Go Tell It On The Mountain" by Ernest Gaines.

In "Go Tell It on the Mountain", author James Baldwin describes the course of the fourteenth birthday of John Grimes in Harlem, 1935. Baldwin also uses extended flashback episodes to recount the lives of John's parents and aunt and to link this urban boy in the North to his slave grandmother in an earlier South. The first section follows John's thoughts, the second mostly his aunt's, the third his father's, the fourth his mother's, and the fifth again mostly John's. In "Go Tell It on the Mountain", author James Baldwin describes the course of the fourteenth birthday of John Grimes in…