Reflection Of Sonny's Blues

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Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin works with the narrator and its younger brother Sonny. The narrator presents life changing moments between both himself and Sonny, although both are related they are both two very distinct individuals. In the beginning of the passage, it started off describing their critical living conditions in Harlem and how people were trapped in the projects while others were able to escape. Although some people were able to escape these living conditions it seemed as though the desperation of trouble would always be with them. The narrator expresses his thoughts on the subject through a complex picture of rage, an express of violent uncontrollable anger reflecting to the audience both external and internal by change, escape, trap, and racism.
The book starts off with Sonny asking for a view of their city Harlem but throughout the tour he had witnessd that nothing had changed with the housing projects through the streets in which he grew up. Comparing how houses were back then, to what they have become and/or what they still are. For instance, Sonny states “housing projects jutted up out of them now like rocks in the boiling sea”. The housing project has a bigger picture to it. It’s meant to state the awful living conditions they live under. For example the rocks being the houses while the …show more content…

Society and life comes together as a whole when concluding this feeling. As seen in Sonny’s Blues life has not been a piece of cake, gang, drugs and negative neighborhood /society can affect you both internal and external. Racism is a big conflict around this time because of many life changing situations they went through. Hatred was probably developed but Sonny and his brother did not choose what society or class they would live in but anger is not a way out. Forgiveness is always the answer for a positive escape of a bad past. Although they both had distinct ways in life brotherly love will always be with

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