... ultimately brings them together as a real family. The narrator's tone is sympathetic towards his brother, Sonny. The narrator pities his brother for all of his poor decisions and is very disappointed in Sonny's actions. The narrator says that he wonders about the life Sonny lived in prison and when he ... lets Sonny know his disapproval towards drugs and Sonny's choice in music, as well as clearly laying out the rules for him staying at his house. The narrator's sympathetic but honest tone lets readers understand the narrator's love-hate relationship with Sonny, where he hates what hi...

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... Blues", written by acclaimed writer James Baldwin is a story of two brothers who struggle with their differences and end up going two different ways at the fork of life; molding them into their personalities which we see develop throughout the story. The differences in morals and goals, between Sonny and his brother, surface as a result of ... through many changes throughout the story is see as being dynamically round character because of these changes. From the beginning of the story Sonny starts off in jail after his arrest, he then goes to stay at his brother's house with his wife, Isa...

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... says the narrator. Sonny's brother clearly doesn't want him to become a jazz musician. The narrator's dislike of his brother's lifestyle is even more apparent later on in the story when Sonny visits him at his house, the narrator comments "I didn't like the way he carried himself, loose and dreamlike all the time, and ... narrator says "I told him that he might just as well be dead as live the way he was living". Finally, having experienced the death of his daughter the narrator gradually changes from criticizing his brothers life to just listening to what he has to say. This change can ...

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... to the income the whites bring in, they live most comfortably. They are the type of family that has no worries by the end of the month because the have plenty of money saved away for emergencies. You can make an assumption that the white's house hold is very laid back and happy. For the most part when families don't have ... growing up without because they start to deal with thing at school and with peers. When kids see other kids with nice clothes and money they start to think of ways of getting it for themselves. Usually it not in a positive way. Kids may result to selling drugs robbin...

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... . Eric Clapton also sings about drugs, much like Pink Floyd. In the song Cocaine he shamelessly promotes the use of cocaine. "If you got bad news, You want to shake them blues, Cocaine. When your day is done, and you want to run, Cocaine. If your date is gone, and you want to ride on, Cocaine. ... Don't forget this fact, You can't get him back, Cocaine. Lost my house, lost my wife, lost my car, Cocaine." Clapton ... definitely went through some hardships in his life. He was kicked out of college, divorced, his son died as a child. His music career has had many up and down times in ... a...

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