Comparing Thank You M Am And Sonny's Blues By Baldwin

Literature can teach us many lessons and values. With many similarities and differences, storys can tell the journeys toward shaping the characters identities. The two stories that do a great job at this are “Thank you M’am by Hughes, and Sonny's Blues by Baldwin. Thank you M’am tells the story of a crime filled city, and a young boys struggle to survive on the life of crime. One day he is caught and has to deal with the consequences, which then set him on the right path. “Sonny’s Blues” is about a recovering heroin addict and his journey back into society. Both were very good stories and were enjoyable to read them because they both had very good lessons to be learned in them and were well written. The characters in Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues” and Hughes “Thank you M’am” discover their identities through their struggle of crime and changing to be better people.
These two stories have many interesting similarities in shaping character; for example, in “Sonny's Blues”, Sonny's brother said ; “I tell you one thing though, I’d rather blow my brains out than go through this again.” …show more content…
Considering he had no family, everyone else probably just looked at him like nothing. So when she showed kindness to him it made him see that not everything is bad and he can still do good and change his life around. Sonnys time in jail influenced him the most in the story “Sonny's Blues”. Without being arrested Sonny never would have quit his addiction by himself. His love for his brother also helped him a bit, but more being completely restricted from the drug. It left him with no choice but to change his life, even though he probably didn't want to at the time that was what was best for