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 ==Plot==
-~Brief summary of the 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 whole day his mind was set on the disturbing news. When his class was over, a friend of Sonny's came through the school yard to talk to the narrator about the situation and that he felt responsible for getting sonny hooked. After the narrator daughter died of polio, he felt the need to write Sonny. When sonny got out of jail he had to live with the narrator 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, him and the narrator got into a argument which made the narrator try to figure out sonny. So he goes to where sonny plays the piano and likes it and he send his brother a drink of a alcoholic beverage with milk.
 ==Characters==