Brothers Relationship In Sonny's Blues By James Baldwin

A multitude of things occur within the jazz club but what stands out the most is within last couple of sentences of the story just as the narrator states “ Then he put it back on top of the piano. For me, then, as they began to play again, it glowed and shook above my brother’s head like the very cup of trembling. This would fall into the connection that Donald Murray pointed out when he states “The final point of the story is that the narrator, through his own suffering and the example of Sonny, is at last able to find himself in the brotherhood of man (“James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues”: Complicated and Simple” SSF, 357. There are some things more apparent than others and within this story there is a clear disconnect within the narrator and …show more content…
His experiences with musicians have led him to believe that they are unmotivated, drug users, seeking only escape from life. He does not really understand what motivates Sonny to play music until the afternoon before he accompanies Sonny to his performance at a club in Harlem.” From "Brothers' Relationship in Baldwin's Sonny's Blues." 123HelpMe.com. 13 Oct 2015. This story can revert back to many perspectives and many theories this is a clear fact but, Donald Murray’s statement makes it more evident that the narrator was lost or stranded in a sense. He is trying to find himself to love his brother Sonny and to actually see himself consider Sonny a brother. This all being said with the fact that the narrator wants to himself love and accept Sonny on his own terms or to appreciate Sonny through the materials and instruments he had and will always have at hand which is simply education. This proves to be true when the narrator states “ I gave up. I decided, if he didn't change his mind, that we could always talk about it later. “in the meantime,” I said, “you got to finish school.” (Baldwin,