Sonny
We all have at least one promise in our lives that we regret not keeping and not all of us have the chance to fix that broken promise. In the story Sonny's Blues written by James Baldwin the narrator gets a second chance to keep his promise. In keeping a promise to mother, who has since passed, he learns something about himself that he would have not learned without the help of the promise he was to keep. Baldwin shows the development of this enlightening process through a very descriptive plot, the clarity of a first person viewpoint, and the inspiring change of the narrator. The story moves in a descriptive pattern describing differant situations and how the narrator got into the different situations. As the narrator steers through the events of his story he lets us know how and when things happened to lead him to that point in the story. As young adults the narrator and his brother, Sonny, lost both of thei
Even though the thoughts of Sonny ran trough his mind, he did not write until after the death after his little girl. This story by Baldwin is a simple story that shows a complicated change within a person. Sonny returns to his dream of being a performer. The narrator has very liberal view points on situations, being a school teacher he sees all the thing his brother could have been, not realizing what he is. In an attempt to keep a promise the narrator grows as a character. Being able to view things from the narrators view allows one to understand the emotions of the character and to understand his ideas. The narrator lets us know that Sonny is in trouble due to drugs. Reading the mews places a block of ice in the narrator's stomach with the memory's of what his brother once was. Baldwin's choice to tell the story from a first person point of view shows the thoughts of main character. His views on his brothers profession has changed he sees that the music lives inside Sonny. The narrator, being the main character, opens us up to his round personality. This epiphany enlightens the narrator into a world he has never been a part of. One morning the narrator picks up a newspaper a reads Sonny's name in the headlines is the most dramatic point in the story. The narrator made the promise to his mother that he would "hold on to your brother and never let him fall" (49).
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