e or career. He still wasn't a man yet, he was still a child, and he had to watch out for him in all kinds of ways. The narrator decided that he would plan Sonny's future and when Sonny rebelled, the narrator saw it as yet another childish action. Another way in which the narrator's overall view changed was his view on whether Sonny's idea of reality was sound. Still in the first phase, the narrator often presents his view of reality and when Sonny rejects it, the narrator feels Sonny is being unreasonable. For instance, “Well, Sonny,” I said, gently, "you know people can't always do exactly what they want to do¾” “No I don’t know that,” said Sonny, surprising me."(142-143). Actually I think that Sonny understood life much more clearly than his brother, but he did not realize that then. He thought that perhaps Sonny was just too young or too high on drugs to understand what life was about. Finally, the third view changed was the narrator's responsibility towards Sonny. Before their mother died, the narrator promised her that he would take it upon himself to take care of Sonny. The narrator viewed Sonny as a responsibility he had, because of the promise made to his mother; he felt he owed it to his mother to take care of Sonny. Therefore, whenever he did something for Sonny it was because his mother had wanted him to, not because he cared about Sonny. During the story, a long separation brought the narrator into his second stage of thinking, and changed his views of Sonny. The narrator recognized that Sonny wasn't just a kid any more. Yet he didn't see him as a man either. "He was a man by then, of course, but I wasn't willing to see it." (177). He saw Sonny as a teenager of sorts. Sonny dressed strangely, became family with strange friends, and listened

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