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This 4 page paper explicates Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.' Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of two African-American brothers. One, who is never named, is a successful middle-class businessman, the other (Sonny) is a musician and drug addict, living a bohemian lifestyle of which the
narrator disapproves. The story is really the tale of their relationship and how the narrator struggles to understand his brothers behavior, and the part music plays in Sonnys life. When
the story opens the narrator and Sonny have been estranged for over a year; the narrator is reading a newspaper and discovers that Sonny has been arrested in a drug
raid and jailed (Class lecture on "Sonnys Blues"). The narrator is saddened and upset by this turn of events and as he tries to come to terms with it, one
of Sonnys friends approaches him and tells him that he blames himself for whats happened to Sonny (Class lecture on "Sonnys Blues"). The two discuss whats happened, and the narrator
begins his struggle to try and understand why Sonny has become a drug addict (Class lecture on "Sonnys Blues"). The narrator remains angry and disappointed in Sonny and doesnt see
him until the narrators daughter Grace dies of polio (Class lecture on "Sonnys Blues"). When he does finally make contact, Sonny immediately begs for his forgiveness and tries to explain
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys Blues"). At that, the narrator takes him home
to live with him and his family in Harlem, and to try and patch up their relationship (Class lecture on "Sonnys Blues"). As they renew their relationship, the brothers discuss
things that happened in the past, including the fact that their mother asked the narrator to "take care of Sonny and to watch out for him when she dies" (Class
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