A family consists of many different issues in itself such as honesty, happiness and trust as well as pain and suffering, but without the individuals within a family, people would not be able to make it through certain times of need. In “Sonny’s Blues,” the narrator cannot deal with Sonny’s pain and due to the fact that he doesn’t want pain like that to become a part of his life he does not write to Sonny in prison until he has experienced a loss of his own. The narrator’s little gi