An Analysis Of Sonny's Blues By James Baldwin

The Obligation toward brotherly love starts when the narrator's mom, by accusing him of observing over his more youthful sibling, Sonny, is requesting that he serve as his keeper. The force between the two siblings echoes, much the same as the relationship between the siblings Cain and Abel from the Bible. In the story, Cain, in the wake of killing Abel, questions whether he should be his sibling's attendant. The storyteller of "Sonny's Blues," is given a comparable quandary, when his mom passes away. From that point forward, Sonny's life has been discolored by jail and drug addiction. The pressure in the middle of Sonny and the storyteller is great to the point, that after one specific battle, Sonny advises his sibling to think of him as dead …show more content…
“When he was about as old as the boys in my classes his face had been bright and open, there was a lot of copper in it; and he’d had wonderfully direct brown eyes, and great gentleness and privacy” (Baldwin, James Sonny’s… page 1). Baldwin uses light to portray Sonny's face when he was youthful and the glow that originated from sitting in a room loaded with grown-ups after chapel. Light speaks to the majority of the positive and cheerful components that are a bit of life. It also has a religious implication. Not just does light speak to the best components of life, yet it also symbolizes a type of salvation and elegance. To live in the light is to go ahead with a legitimate, moral …show more content…
The darkness, which resembles a list of social and individual issues, can be discovered all over. The darkness actually intimidates the figures in the story, something they are intensely mindful of once the sunsets. Sonny's life in jail, his drug addiction, and the general condition of life in Harlem are all typified by the darkness. As pervasive, as the darkness is to be, on the other hand, it is continually balanced against a measure of light. Light, eventually, comes to imply salvation, solace, and affection, while darkness speaks to the fear and devastation that dependably threatens to smother