Character Analysis: Summary In Sonny's Blues By James Baldwin

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The brothers are faced with disunity. Sonny is entangled with the culture, whereas the brother tries to avoid it. Both brothers are challenged with embracing Sonny’s individuality. However, one embraces it and the other fight against it. Sonny knows what he wants.

In "Sonny 's Blues," James Baldwin shows how pain is not something to be escaped, but something that must be accepted and even embraced in order to achieve redemption, as can be seen through Sonny 's explanations to the narrator throughout the story and by the narrator 's final realizations and abandonment his negative outlook on Sonny at the conclusion of the story. For most of the story, the narrator suppresses his own pain and looks down on Sonny’s way of living because of his lack of understanding. All of the pain he keeps pent up

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As a matter of fact, the storyteller does not appreciate Sonny's motivations to play jazz music until the evening he socially joins Sonny to his stage show at a nightclub. Sitting in a dark corner at the nightclub, the storyteller listens to his brother play, considering the reminder of Sonny's friend, Creole, of what the Blues are about, "The tale, of the blues, how we live, and how we are delighted, how we suffer... and how we triumph... must be heard... it's the only light we've got in all this darkness." (Baldwin 139). For the narrator, he perceives that the Blues is the manifestation for Sonny's emotions, especially his suffering, because, as Creole would say, music is the only light in the

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Sonny’s Blue by James Baldwin took place back in the 1950’s in the city Harlem, where blacks' lives were actually tough. There is two main characters of the story, Sonny is a troubled young man who becomes addicted to heroin at an early age in his life and also the narrator’s little brother. The narrator has an unknown name, but he is a successful working math teacher and raising a family with all the chaos around him. In Africa there’s about 17 million kids not in schooling, and the ones in school learn so little while in they are in school because the education system isn’t great. That’s because the kids lose their parents, can’t afford to provide for themselves, and also lack of education.

Every book, story, and poem has a plot that uses the same key components to keep readers engaged in what is happening. Without plot it literature pieces would be dry bland and hard to read. Traditionally plot consists of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion to tell the order of what is happening. In the stories The Shroud, The Jewelry, and Sonny’s Blues each of the authors use the traditional components of plot in their stories. Plot is used to strengthen writings along with making the writing stronger.

In the story “Sonny’s Blues” written by James Baldwin, one of the main characters was a drug abuser. Sonny lived a miserable and lonely life. After he got hooked on drugs, his brother, the narrator stopped associating with him. On page 175, he said that it has been over a year since he had seen Sonny. Also on page 177, the narrator said “I did not write Sonny, or send him anything for a long time.”

“Sonny’s Blues,” written by James Baldwin discusses conflicts between two brothers in hopes of mending their relationship. “Sonny’s Blues” begins with the unnamed narrator reading a piece of paper with information regarding the trouble his brother Sonny has gotten himself into. The narrator has not been communicating with his brother during this period, but after the death of his two-year-old daughter Grace, he writes Sonny a letter. Once Sonny has been released, he goes back to Harlem to live with the narrator, and the narrator forces him into staying with his fiancé Isabel and her family because he believes Sonny deserves the opportunity to receive an education. Sonny makes it known to the narrator that he does not want to go back to school