Penalty Of Death-Analysis

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the beginning and even tells himself that "(he) never played the role of the older brother quite so seriously before (47)." Sonny’s brother is a teacher and you can tell by his instincts how much he want to teach Sonny things about life in general. By playing the "roles" of parent, big brother, and teacher, Sonny’s brother constantly stresses how he wants his brother to turn out. In the end Sonny’s brother should have listened to himself when he told his mother that "(Sonny is) a good boy and he’s got good sense (45)" so that he would of trusted Sonny more to make his own decisions.
In "Paul’s Case" Paul was the only child in his family and because his mother died he has only his father’s influence on his life. We join Paul in the story while he is getting in trouble, much like how Sonny was in trouble at first. Much like "Sonny’s Blues" Paul sees himself facing his teachers and they are questioning him as to why he was ...

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"he experienced the physical depression, the loathing of respectable beds, of common food, of a house penetrated by kitchen odors," he hated Cordelia Street. Paul in his story seems to think about his life more than Sonny, this is evident whenever he steps foot onto Cordelia street. "The nearer he approached the house, the more absolutely unequal Paul felt to the sight of it all; his ugly sleeping chamber; the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub, the cracked mirror…(405)." He wanted a different life, and had always planned escape Cordelia Street and achieves the life he wanted.

Sonny decided that he wanted to be a musician, and the distraction of his brother ...

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