... 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 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 g...

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