Sonny admits that the woman’s voice at the street meeting reminded him of what heroin felt like. The narrator listens to his brother and lets him know that music is a positive factor and can be an alternate to drug use. This shows the reader that the narrator is showing sympathy and has a great deal of understanding about Sonny’s suffering. Their sense of understanding becomes so strong that Sonny invites his brother to watch him play. During the performance the narrator begins to analyze the music that Sonny and the group were playing.
scene graph. 1. Paul and his family move to Darwin as his father got a job promotion, Paul meets Keller & starts his music lessons that he doesn't really like. He thinks that Keller is a very strange man and that he is silly for how he is teaching Paul! 2.Keller starts to open up about his life and how is Jewish wife and son were killed by the Nazi's when Herr Keller used to play for Adlof Hitler personally and thought that his family would be safe because of it.
Akiba Drumer was an inspirational young Jewish boy who tried to keep his faith and hope by playing his violin but sadly loses faith and gives up. The Holocaust brought out people inner courage and faith. Elie is a young 12 year old Jewish boy who has strong faith. “why did I pray?...why did I live?...why did I breathe?” throughout his experiences of the Holocaust his faith begins to fade away “never shall I forget…”. His “father’s presence was the only thing that could stop” him from giving up because he was the only support for his father and gave him courage to survive through each day.
That evening they went to a nightclub downtown where Sonny’s brother realizes that this is the place where Sonny has been spending his time. Everyone in the nightclub knew Sonny and was anxiously awaiting his arrival to hear Sonny play his music. “Here it was not even a question that his veins bore royal blood.” (98) Sonny initially could not find his way on the piano and made many mistakes as he stammered through the first set, but afterwards a man named Creole reminded them that they were playing the blues and gave them a lesson on what blues is all about. “For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.” (100) Creole then seemed to be saying listen-listen to Sonny’s Blues.
k Goldsworthy’s novel ‘Maestro’ uses a first person, reflective narrative to recount the memoires of Paul, a precocious teenage musical, with particular emphasis on the relationship he has with his instructor, the retired concert pianist, Eduard Keller. The author presents Keller (the ‘maestro’) as enigmatic, reclusive and tainted by the horrors of the Second World War, in particular the murder of his wife and son. Keller displays flashes of brilliance, but his appreciation of music is clothed in his world weary cynicism, which stems from his troubled past. Keller inculcates in Paul his own rigid, dogmatic worldview and a wariness of beauty, thus destroying Paul’s own idealism, an aspect which had been crucial to Keller’s early success as
Sam says, “When I look back over my life, I realize that at the most critical stages, someone was there to reach me with exactly what I needed”(35). When Sam’s father divorced his mother that allowed him to venture out, and get into trouble, before he started getting into trouble his brother had introduced him to Reggie his martial arts teacher at the age of 10. So Sam had someone to look up to and teach him discipline. When Sam got into trouble remembering Reggie was a part of his life allowed him to reflect back on what he was taught, and confirmed there was a better road to travel. When Sam got into certain situations he remembered what Reggie taught him while taking Kung-Fu lessons, Sam was taught how to mediate.
Although it seems to be a cold and dark place Harlem is well known for its music, and that is what filled Sonny’s life. Music is the one positive thing that Sonny did have to look forward to in his life even though his family may not have understood it. It took his brother many years and finally going to listen to him play to understand what he had been through and what his music was about for him. The older brother started out the story really not wanting to know what was going on with Sonny because I think of the guilt and pain it caused him to think about it. You can tell by his story that not being there in the most important times of Sonny’s life has left him with a lot of heartache.
The songs or hymns lyrics “Tis the old ship of Zion...it has rescued many a thousand” (425) that the narrator hears outside his window as he is about to search sonny’s room, relates to both the narrator and Sonny. This song relates to It relates, also, to the narrator because it saved the narrator from making a mistake that would have cost him the trust of his brother, who is trying to change his life. However, it is not until the narrator goes to see Sonny perform, in which he plays Am I blue, that the narrator understands his brother and his passion for jazz. He writes: “I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would
The narrator is a high school algebra teacher making an attempt to be a model citizen living out the “American Dream” with his wife and their children. The narrator bought into the establishment, is veteran of the US Army, and gives out the perception that his life is in order and he has this act together. On the flipside, the narrator’s brother Sonny is a veteran of the Navy, but being veterans is all they seem to have in common. Sonny has lived his life numbing his the pain that causes him anguishes by wrapping himself in soothing blanket of heroin, using sweet China White to aid his music performances, evading the demons that continually haunted him. By comparison the narrator and Sonny’s initially appear to be very different in their ways.
Sonny’s blues The effect of art on to the audience The acceptance came into full circle when he was listening to the music and watching Sonny play and express himeself on the piano. Where the older brother was disappointed in Sonny's choice of being a musician, he now embraces it. The narrator loves his brother and his love is unconditional. By listening to Sonny play the jazz music, the narrator was able to change his attitude about life, himself, and most of all, Sonny's choice He watches all his brother’s struggles come pouring out as he plays, and only then does he finally realize who Sonny is and what he’s made of. nlike Sonny, the narrator has a difficult time expressing his ideas and emotions, and only when his young daughter dies