Parent And Child Bond In James Baldwin's Sonny

I chose the quote from when the narrator had finally met up with Sonny, “I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken.” f I’ll begin with the narrator and what I understood from his thought. to the narrator he was well exactly describing what he’d witness in his brother’s childhood. He’s making it know that he was there for Sonny as a child and had seen him grow up. Very much in a similar way as a parent does with their own child. I believe that the narrator is trying to display that, he feels to be a parental position with Sonny instead of brother. Though the two positions are caring of a son or brother, a parent and child bond is stronger, because they have been there and helped shape who they are as human peoples physically and emotionally, feeling some sort of responsibility for them. On the other hand for Sonny, it means to show that he was young, very young compared to his brother who was there for these big moments in his life. It shapes Sonny to be the younger sibling the one who was still a seen and …show more content…
People who saw each other every day on the streets from work to school on the playgrounds, public events. Their lives revolve around each other for years and they themselves eventually form bonds with their neighbors and that neighborhood takes on that position of caring for those around them, families, children if someone is missing a figure in their own lives. For me in my own community this hits close to home as I grew up with a large family, and my own siblings much older than me saw me grow up and now I’m in a position where I see my own niece and nephew grow up. For my community and others I think as a person begins to grow, they feel responsible see-ing someone grow up and feel like they have a part in how this person grows up to be as