Living On the Blues
“Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin is a story about the relationship between two brothers. The story deals with each brother’s own internal conflicts as well as the conflicts they had with each other. The central idea of this story is how ones own experiences of personal hardships make them better able to empathize with the troubles of others. In the beginning of the story the brother reads about his brother (Sonny) being arrested for selling and using heroin. Even though Sonny was sent to prison, the brother is unable to connect to Sonny’s pain until his own two-year-old daughter passed on. The brother then understands that, “My trouble made his (Sonny’s) real.” At the end of the story Sonny is released from his sentence and he invites his brother to accompany him to a local nightclub. “If you can stand it,” Sonny add
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Approximate Word count = 571
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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