The effect of family on one another in “Sonny’s Blues” In the perfect family, the siblings are usually very close to each other and so are the parents. However that’s not always the case. In today’s society with all the foster kids being in the system and being separated they don’t really have to chance to stay connected. But there are often time were the perfect family will have sibling that not even remotely close to one another and would be considered normal in today’s society. James Baldwin, in “Sonny’s Blues” displays the effect of how two brothers are not close to each other at all. Also how not having a supportive family can be pushed in to drug addiction. It’s not until the narrator hears Sonny play at the night club where he notice
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When he tried to play the pain in the house he was shut down for it. No one gave him the support to push him forward with his dream. “Well I really don’t know how they stood it. Isabel finally confessed that it wasn’t like living with a person at all it was like living with sound. And the sound didn’t make any sense to her” (49). This represents how the narrator did not care on how mush Sonny was practicing so he could become good at something he loves. The narrator He has no support from his brother nor his brother’s wife Isabel who thinks of his music not making since. Isabel feels that she is living with “sound “rather than a person for the amount of music that she is hearing every day. It shows us how much of a burden Sonny music is to her. Also Isabel didn’t think the music made “much sense to her” she sees no point in him playing if it makes no sense. Sonny is not getting the amount support he needs from his family. It changes any hope sonny has in perusing any dream he had in music. Also pushed him more toward the durgs because no one noticed how much music means to him and how mush he is into it. The drugs are a way out from is family not supporting …show more content…
“ well, Sonny, “I said gently, “you know people can’t always do exactly what they want to do” (47). The narrator is mostly looking out for Sonny future but at the same time is not helping him with the faith he need within himself. The phrase “People can’t always do what they want to do” illustrates that what Sonny wants to do will mostly likely not going to happen. The narrator has no faith what’s so ever toward what sonny want to do. Sonny’s dreams and all faith he had are being shut down and are basically being told that he can’t reach his goal of being a Jazz player. It’s not till Sonny brings his brother to the night club and let him finally hear him play and to finally realize the struggle of what Sonny has be going through coming out of the music that he is playing. The narrator I understanding what is going through with Sonny and his battel with drug addiction. The music is a substitute for the drugs where he can put his struggles through his
When he tried to play the pain in the house he was shut down for it. No one gave him the support to push him forward with his dream. “Well I really don’t know how they stood it. Isabel finally confessed that it wasn’t like living with a person at all it was like living with sound. And the sound didn’t make any sense to her” (49). This represents how the narrator did not care on how mush Sonny was practicing so he could become good at something he loves. The narrator He has no support from his brother nor his brother’s wife Isabel who thinks of his music not making since. Isabel feels that she is living with “sound “rather than a person for the amount of music that she is hearing every day. It shows us how much of a burden Sonny music is to her. Also Isabel didn’t think the music made “much sense to her” she sees no point in him playing if it makes no sense. Sonny is not getting the amount support he needs from his family. It changes any hope sonny has in perusing any dream he had in music. Also pushed him more toward the durgs because no one noticed how much music means to him and how mush he is into it. The drugs are a way out from is family not supporting …show more content…
“ well, Sonny, “I said gently, “you know people can’t always do exactly what they want to do” (47). The narrator is mostly looking out for Sonny future but at the same time is not helping him with the faith he need within himself. The phrase “People can’t always do what they want to do” illustrates that what Sonny wants to do will mostly likely not going to happen. The narrator has no faith what’s so ever toward what sonny want to do. Sonny’s dreams and all faith he had are being shut down and are basically being told that he can’t reach his goal of being a Jazz player. It’s not till Sonny brings his brother to the night club and let him finally hear him play and to finally realize the struggle of what Sonny has be going through coming out of the music that he is playing. The narrator I understanding what is going through with Sonny and his battel with drug addiction. The music is a substitute for the drugs where he can put his struggles through his