Khoa Tran 11/1/2010 Eng1102 Mr. McNamara Sonny Blue In this world that we live in there are lots of different characters throughout everybody. No one will be the same as the other even if they are grows up together or a long time best friend. In the story Sonny Blue by James Baldwin is a perfect example for two brothers that grow up together and into two completely different lives as they grow up into their own character. The author names the story Sonny Blue as he wants to point out the brother of his and the sad mood with unhappy thoughts of the author thinks about his brother life. The author writes this story about the two brothers that grow up together into two different ways of other.
Tahiru Nasuru EN101 Out of Class Essay #1 03/13/2013 World of Siblings Relationships bond us together but I believe no relationship is perfect. Not even blood relationships. Siblings can come from the same parents, grow up together but they are certain periods in life where they get on separate pages. At the end of the day, siblings are still siblings. In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", Baldwin tells us about two brothers, Sonny and his brother.
James Marinez ENG 121 September 29, 2013 Prof. Paul Sonny’s Blues, a short story written by James Baldwin, is about the emotional hardships that two brothers are urged to come to an agreement with. Setting during post World War II in Harlem, New York, the narrator is first seen as a character who has many battles to face within himself and the outside world, mainly his brother, Sonny, and his drug addiction. Upon learning his brother’s troubles with the government, the narrator is forced to deal with their lifestyle differences, put aside their hostility for each other, and learn to take care of his younger sibling. Although the two brothers are constantly fighting in the beginning of the short story, it is clearly seen that towards the end both become at peace with one’s inner self
The car symbolizes a brotherhood between the main characters. This brotherhood changed after Henry, the oldest brother, returned from war and things were never quite the same between the brothers. Both brothers had something they truly desired for themselves and their sibling. Henry had a desire for freedom while Lyman had a desire to get his older brother back to normal. Desire is a complex word with different official meanings and varied effects on people.
AP Essay "Johnny Got His Gun" This passage from Johnny Got His Gun describes the close relatioship between a father and his son. The passage shows the desire and importance of a son's right of passage in growing up. The author shows the dedication between a father and son and the struggle that the son feels in breaking away. The son is beginning to feel the need to branch out as most do during adolescence. The passage shows the difficulty in achieving this goal and in finding the right time to do it.
Mayo 1 Angela Mayo Brian Linville English 103 September 13, 2011 Sonny’s Blues Sonny's Blues is a story about two brothers lives shown through extreme circumstances of growing up in the ghettos of Harlem, who struggle to understand each other. James Baldwin writes about the brothers ultimate goal to repair their relationship, that has been turned upside down ultimately because of their harsh surroundings. Over time, they begin to understand each other for who they are, rather than who they want each other to be. The overall theme of the story is not necessarily to be your “brothers keeper”, but to just be there for your brother. Not just in the physical regards or controlling ways, but mentally and emotionally available.
Sonny's brother wouldn't listen or understand to what Sonny wanted.Later in the story they have a better relationship and Sonny's brother realizes that music helped Sonny through all of his suffering and it also helped them both as brothers to finally bring them closer together. Suffering is another important them throughout Sonny's blues.Sonny suffered with an addiction to drugs, Sonny's brother suffered when his daughter died with Polio and their father suffered when he watched his brother died and didn't do anything.They all handled their suffering in a different way whether it was with music or the way they would present themselves.Baldwin uses darkness and light as the darkness is Sonny suffering to his addiction and light as his brother being the educated one that lived life as what he thought was the right way to live it. Sonny's blues by James Baldwin has several themes.The theme of music and the theme of suffering were very important in this story because they all suffered in life and with their relationships.Music helped Sonny with his addiction and it also helped the brothers with their
A Look at James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues” Michael Clark, in a critical analysis essay he wrote on James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues”, examines the ways in which Baldwin uses images of light and darkness to tell the story of two brother's. Thus, being Sonny and his elder brother. Clark points out in his essay that Sonny finds his life a living hell, yet he knows enough to try and strive for better, for that saving light. He also believes that Sonny sees music as something positive and by not mastering music will result in a downfall in his life. Not only does Clark express his point of view on Sonny and his older brother, he also has the idea that the brothers' father, mother, uncle, and the elder brother's daughter Gracie each represented
Even Sonny, for all his problems he has with drugs, helps the people around him endure and survive by channeling their frustrated desires into his music The drugs on the streets of Harlem have affected both the narrator and Sonny very deeply. It made Sonny start doing bad things and it made the narrator turn his back on his brother he was supposed to protect. Both the narrator and Sonny wanted to get out of Harlem but only Sonny decided to do something but went on
“Red Convertible.” “The Red Convertible” by Louise Edrich is one of the saddest stories I have ever read. It is about two Chippewa boys, brothers and the bonds of family and friendship they share. The story is told in the first person by one brother, Lyman Lamartine, and focuses on his relationship with his brother (or half brother) Henery Junior. Although they are brothers they are different in many ways. For example, they do not look alike, and the narrator states “we look so different” (236).