Comparing The Rich Brother And Sonny's Blues By James Baldwin

Brother had stopped wanting Doodle around. However every sibling relationship is not this way. The siblings connection with one another depends on the individual's personality , even if it is based on pride . A different characterization of a sibling relationship is shown in the song “Brother”. One’s view of the brother’s relationship of the song could be that the brother that is narrating is aggressive and harmful toward the other brother .

Family evolves throughout the book; mostly shown in the Curtis family. The evolution shows a broken family turn into a reunited one. The lack of parents led the Curtis brothers to struggle to stay together. They managed to overcome their challenges and unite. This reunion of family led the Curtis brothers to change their personalities and their views.

Ponyboy, the protagonist, lives with his two older brothers, Soda and Darry. Their parents died earlier in the year. As a result of this, Darry, the oldest, works two jobs in order to take care of his two younger brothers, and though Darry and Ponyboy have a strong relationship as brothers, their relationship has ups and downs. Darry is trying to take care of his brothers and do what is best for them. Sometimes, though, he pushes Ponyboy too hard, which Soda constantly has to remind him of “...when Darry hollers at you, he don’t mean nothin’.” (Hinton, 17) Soda is trying to remind Pony that Darry doesn’t mean all of the things he says when he is angry, and that he only yells because he is concerned about how Ponyboy acts.

Family evolves throughout the book mostly shown in the Curtis family. The evolution shows a broken family turn into a reunited oe. The lack of parents led the Curtis brothers to struggle to stay together. They managed to overcome their challenges and unite. This reunion of family led the Curtis brothers to change their personalities and their views.

Following his second call with his mother, Hally becomes emotionally unstable, venting out his frustrations on his servants. When Sam finally snaps and retaliates after Hally’s racist joke, Hally reveals his true feelings towards his father. After Sam recalls a memory in which he carried Hally’s drunk father back home with little Hally by his side, Hally finally admits, “I love him” (58). Hally’s hatred towards his father is not genuine, but derives from shame. Hally is embarrassed of his father’s drinking habits, but even more ashamed of the night when his black servant had to carry his drunk father back home and clean up the mess he made in his pants.

In “Sonny’s Blues” the past Sonny lived exemplifies how a person can develop regardless of their past. Sonny writes a letter to his brother revealing his great sorrow and hopelessness “But now I feel like a man who’s been trying to climb up out of some deep, real deep and funky hole..”(Sonny’s Blues” 78). Sonny and his brother reached many disagreements due to his poor life choices the consequence of this is that his brother isolated Sonny away from his life. The fact Sonny is writing to his brother shows the despair and low he faces at that current time. The development in character is shown in “Escape From Spiderhead” as Jeff agrees with multiple experiments as he acts of a pawn to the experimenter, Abnesti.

The narrator writes after the death of her daughter where he is writing back to his brother. The narrator keeps in mind that he has an obligation to watch his brother but he tore apart by his emotions which are shifting from love to hate. The reason is, he is unable to accept fully that his brother can change as much as he cares about him. Since he was young, Sonny is haunted

There was an unspoken hate between them and he did not like the way Sonny carried himself or the people he was friends with. He blames this, and the way Sonny is living, on his music claiming, "his music seemed to be merely an excuse for the life he led" (83). The narrator did his best to mend his broken relationship with Sonny, but it only resulted in a fight and Sonny said that "he was dead as far as I [the narrator] was concerned" (83). The narrator was fearful that Sonny would be just like all the other musicians around Harlem and the surrounding cities. After the disagreement he did not talk to Sonny, even following the news his arrest, until after his little girl, Grace died.

Jim becomes a farther figure and role model for Huck more than his own father ever could. Twain uses Huck and Jim to show how the theme of friendship came to pass. Huck and Jim were equally trying to escape their problems. Huck was trying to escape because of his horrid consequences with pap, he feared that if he had not left pap the drunk beatings would have potentially worsened. Huck enjoys not having to attend school but he soon gets upset that he is being beaten and taken advantage of!

Our love for our siblings is a very tricky love because we could love them or hate them. We could fight and argue all the times but that our way of showing we love each other. Mr. Geoffrey Philp, the author of the short story called “My Brother 's Keeper.” Show an excellent example of siblings love. The short story illustrates how one misses his father and soon after, he gains a brother. Throughout the story, Umpire, the main character struggle to love his brother because of jealous.