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"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin is a short story about the past and present life of two brothers. Pain and sorrow is part of their life, and the world surrounding them is viewed very differently by the two brothers. Sonny and his brother learn to deal with their pain, suffering and desire for primacy from Harlem in different avenues. Sonny's brother is wishful of living a life outside his teaching career and has the desire to live life as sonny does, careless and inattentive. Sonny lives life with avoidance and carelessness, he chalks up heroin to escape the caves of life in Harlem. The narrator tells many stories from their childhood to the time they are grown up with the death of ...

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of ourselves which had been left behind". They both are desperate to find faded memories that are left behind of their childhood before the pain and misery came to their life. Once for a short while they were happy before the death of their parents, little Gracie, and use of drugs. Harlem is not what it use to be to Sonny and his brother, now they can only see through make believe, and prejudiced view of their eyes. It seems both brother want's to get as far as possible from Harlem but the more they try the harder it is getting.
To escape the darkness of Harlem sonny got involved in using drugs, he was able to fill the loneliness and lack of support for his music from his brother with the use of drugs. His brother neglected him when sonny needed him the most, after their mothers death sonny had no decision making authority to what he was going to do with his life. By forcing Sonny to stay with Isabel's family, he was forced to withdraw and create a world in which he ...

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Added: 12/24/2008 02:04:24 PM
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