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James Baldwin

Losing a father figure and learning how to go on differently then what he has taught you, or what you have learned is in fact a tough thing to do. In Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin looks at whatever he can gather up about his father who past away. “. . . He was, I think, very handsome. I gather this from photographs and from my own memories of him, dressed in his Sunday best and on his way to preach a sermon somewhere, . . .”(Baldwin p.203). In comparison to Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin sets the same type of tone in Sonny’s Blues. Here Baldwin sets the scene to where a father figure is lost, but is not missed greatly. Sonny’s brother which is the narrator and who is older acts as the father figure in Sonny’s life. “. . . Sonny. . . I know how you feel. But if you don’t finish school now, you’re going to be sorry later that you didn’t. (Baldwin p.163). That just shows you that the narrator wanted the best for Sonny, and not for Sonny to become a bum on the streets.

Even though both of the stories involve a death in


James Baldwin showed two types of love in both of his passages. Tough love, and heartfelt love. Even though losing someone is heartfelt, he shows in Note of a Native Son that love can be revealed after one is gone. He also reveals in Sonny’s Blues that love between ones’ family has to be stronger than other loves in the world. The narrator pulls himself together and steps up to the plate to become a father figure to his younger brother. Showing how two stories relate, and how they differ just goes to show that a unique is the proper family. But whenever someone pushes the envelope too far, that person won’t be missed until something tragic happens. To sum up all of my ideas, tragedy brings out true family values.

the family, there is a big contrast on how they treat the death. In Sonny’s Blues, the death of the father takes a huge toll on the entire immediate family, but in Note Of A Native Son the death of their father doesn’t really affects them as much. “. . . I had declined to believe in that apocalypse which had been central to my fat

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