Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf Please integrate direct support from the text, making sure to place quotation marks around any...

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf


Please integrate direct support from the text, making sure to place quotation marks around any direct quotes. A well developedpararagraphor two is sufficient.


Some points/discussion questions to consider: Sonny's desire to be a musician and how this affects his older brother (the narrator); the two brothers' relationship dynamic (particularly the responsibility an older sibling has to a younger sibling? generationaldiffferences, historical context) ; the point of view of the story---how we learn about Sonny and others through the singleperspective of the older brother; how Baldwin uses music within the story to enhance conflict and characterization; how music is used as a form of communication, solace, survival... (for Sonny? even for those in the street revival? etc.) and, ultimately, how music is used as a unifying force for the two brothers at the end of the story. The narrator undergoes change by the end of the story, thus enhancing the literary use of the character arc: how a character changes by the end of the story as the plot unfolds.