Sonnys Blues

At the begging you find out the Sonny’s brother was a math teacher in their old neighborhood of Harlem. His brother Sonny was a drug addict that was in rehab getting over his addiction of heroin. The two brothers have not talk in over a year and one of Sonny’s friends come and tell him that he went to rehab and the just brought back memories. Sonny’s brother wanted the best for him, he felt the Sonny was a smart boy and could have done anything. Before their mother died she toll the “If anything happens to me he ain’t going to have nobody to look out for him” (Sonny’s blues, 2001, p#76). She tolled him the story of their uncle and how he died, the uncle was a musician and he played the guitar. one night they where coming home from drinking and his brother started to run down the hill. They’re where some white guy

As Sonny got older the more his brother played dad to the point they had a falling out. After Sonny left for the Army and came Back to New York at the end of the war he would stop by and see his brother. The brother’s would fight every time “I didn’t like the way he carried himself, loose and dreamlike all the time” (Sonny’s blues, 2001, p#82). Sonny was Living in the village the brother went there to make up with Sonny and his friends where there. He tried to talk to Sonny alone but he did not get up off the bed, he got mad and said to sonny “ he might just as well be dead as live the way he was living” (Sonny’s blues, 2001, p#82). The Sonny got up and said “ not to worry about him any more in life, that he was dead as far as I was concerned” (Sonny’s blues, 2001, p#82) and through him out. The turning point between the two brothers’ was after the death of Grace; Sonny started living with his brother. On day he looked out the window and saw people at barbecue joint a cross the street from where they lived. There sister’s and a brother went to the place and started to sing then Sonny walk into the crowd with a notebook his brother said, “it made him look…almost like a schoolboy” (Sonny’s blues, 2001, p#84). I think the reason way the brother said that is because Sonny never finish school and he wanted more of him and standing there with the notebook he look like what he wanted. Sonny came inside the house

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