Sonny's Blues/Annotated Bibliography

• Dempsey, Joan (2011). "Waiting for you: Beauford Delaney as James Baldwin's Inspiration for the character creole in 'Sonny's Blues'". Obsidian. 12 (1): 60–78. This article of journal states that how creole inspired and help sonny to overcome heroin. Creole is an artistic mentor and a father figure for sonny. Creole is very clearly the principal person who has taken sonny under his wings. It is because of playing the piano that sonny can stay away from drugs. With the help of creole, sonny takes the risk to become a jazz musician.

• Kim, Eui Young (2018). "The Sociology of the ghetto in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'". The Explicator. 76 (3): 161–165. Kim explains the sociology of the ghetto by accessing the use of the narrator and words and relating them to the environment which creates a image for the reader. Then they use some of the details given in the story about the neighborhood and compared it to the broken windows theory. After that it talks about how the environment could have influenced sonny to do drugs, which sonny thought the same. So that is why sonny wanted to leave. Sonny wanted to leave because he knew that the environment was not a good one.

• Stone, Caitlin (Oct 2013). "Lost and Found: The Fall of Grace in 'Sonny's Blues'". The Explicator. 71 (4): 251–254. Stone explains the significance of the death of grace and how it relates to the brothers. Topics addressed include the symbolic associations of the Grace's death and the religious "a fall from grace" in Christian terminology.