Sonny's Blues/Annotated Bibliography: Difference between revisions

}} This literary criticism article explains the sociology of the ghetto in James Baldwin's Sonny Blues by carefully 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. that would encourage wrongdoing. 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.