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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
The story begins with the unnamed narrator on his way to work as a math teacher and opening up a newspaper finding out his brother, Sonny had been arrested for using and selling heroin. | The story begins with the unnamed narrator on his way to work as a math teacher and opening up a newspaper finding out his brother, Sonny had been arrested for using and selling heroin. The whole day his mind was set on the disturbing news. When his class was over, a friend of Sonny's came through the schoolyard to talk to the narrator about the situation and that he felt responsible for getting sonny hooked. After the narrator's daughter died of polio, he felt the need to write Sonny. When sonny got out of jail he had to live with the narrator's wife Isabel's parents so that he could go to school and have access to a piano. Meanwhile, Sonny did not go to school, he started doing acid.After that he ran off to the navy and came back. When he came back, him and the narrator got into an argument about his suspicion of drug use. After the intense argument,the narrator felt the need to figure out why sonny acts a certain way about jazz.So he goes to where Sonny plays the piano and he actually likes it. Then he sends sonny a drink of alcoholic scotch and milk which showed he was satisfied. | ||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
'''Narrator''': He is a math teacher and he is 7 years older than Sonny. | '''Narrator''': He is a math teacher and he is 7 years older than Sonny. The narrator goes through quandaries by attempting to navigate Sonny's future in the right direction, failing inevitably due to the lack of commitment. | ||
'''Sonny''': He is the narrator's brother, jazz musician, and heroin addict who lived in New York. He died when he got hit by a car while walking home from a concert with the narrator’s father. | '''Sonny''': He is the narrator's brother, jazz musician, and heroin addict who lived in New York. He died when he got hit by a car while walking home from a concert with the narrator’s father. | ||
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* {{cite journal | first=Eui Young | last= Kim | date= October 2013 | title= The Sociology of the Ghetto in James Baldwin's ‘Sonny's Blues’ | journal= The Explicator | volume= 76 | issue= 3 | pages= 161-165 | * {{cite journal | first=Eui Young | last= Kim | date= October 2013 | title= The Sociology of the Ghetto in James Baldwin's ‘Sonny's Blues’ | journal= The Explicator | volume= 76 | issue= 3 | pages= 161-165 | ||
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* {{Cite book |date={{date|2002}} |title=Reading and Writing about Literature |editor-last=Sipiora |editor-first=Phillip |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Upper Saddle Creek, NJ }} | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Stone | first1=Caitlin | date= October 2013 | title= Lost and Found: The Fall of Grace in ‘Sonny's Blues’ |journal=The Explicator | volume= 71 |issue= 4 | pages= 251-254 }} | * {{cite journal |last1=Stone | first1=Caitlin | date= October 2013 | title= Lost and Found: The Fall of Grace in ‘Sonny's Blues’ |journal=The Explicator | volume= 71 |issue= 4 | pages= 251-254 }} | ||
* {{ | * {{cite journal |last1=Tracey | first1=Steen C. | date= 2015 | title= Sonny in the Dark: Jazzing the Blues Spirit and the Gospel truth in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues’ |journal=The Explicator | volume= 1 |issue=0 (2015) }} | ||
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