What made Sonny dive into drugs while his older brother managed to become a
             teacher, and start a health family? It's thought that Sonny drifted into drugs, because of
             an unsupportive family. His brother wasn't around when he should have been. After
             Sonny served jail time for peddling heroin; it was time for his older brother, the narrator
             to tie up loose ends. Well Sonny took up another habit, music. How long would it take for
             the narrator to re-enter and support his younger brother again?
             Many contributing factors led Sonny to that fateful day when he decided to try
             heroin. Death of a family, a brother out in the world serving military time unsupportive of
             his younger brother of whom he promised to his mother that he would watch out for.
             Sonny was always thought of as quiet. As a young man Sonny and his father would often
             be found arguing. The narrator blames it on how his father viewed Sonny as "the
             apple of his fathers eye". His father "loved Sonny so much and was frightened for him,
             that he was always fighting with him" (p.46) But Sonny being the borderline recluse
             would just move "back, inside himself, where he can't reached (p.46). But the brother
             goes to inform us that "the principal reason what they never hit it off is they were so
             much alike (p.46). Dad was big and loud and Sonny was just the opposite but they both
             were very private. It's hard to say why the narrator turned out so well. There's always the
             idea of the narrator being the older brother and Sonny being younger and more
             vulnerable. There are a number of reasons that could be linked to Sonny's dabbling with
             Sonny's older brother, whose name is not mentioned, does however decide to re-
             enter and establish a friendly brotherly relation with Sonny. At first Sonny's older
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