The Blues in Sonny’s Life
When it comes to blues music we relate it to the sorrow, or hardships that the musician is going through. Blues music reflects on the dark times in the musician’s life. From reading the brief bio on James Baldwin we can see that his life could be a typical blues song. Through his character Sonny the blues is portrayed through Sonny’s life and music. In James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” we see several examples of symbolism, but the two that enriches the story the most are light and darkness these symbols are used all throughout “Sonny’s Blues.”
In our lives we have moments of lightness and darkness, but in each of the moments of light there is darkness, and in the dark moments there is light. But these are the defining moments of our lives, the moments of growth. Where are meant to learn from our mistakes, so we can be able to grow. With Sonny we see that he does not take his mistake and grow from them, his actions do not mature. In the sufferings of life there is always hope and Sonny experiences that.
We as humans hope that our lives as positive and hope that our life is full of light but that is always not the case, the windows in Sonny’s life portray the good that happen as he grows into adult hood. The narrator said “But there’s …show more content…
The darkness can be very overwhelming which is what we see happening when the narrator talks about the housing projects and how dark of a place they are. The darkness also becomes reality for Sonny when he was in jail because it was a bad thing that had happened when Sonny was arrested because the darkness was keeping him from learning from his mistakes. When the mother is talking about how not only is it the bad boys who get caught up within the trouble but its everyone we can infer people get caught up into trouble because of how powerful the darkness is. So we see that to make it out of the dark times we have to have someone to help
When it comes to blues music we relate it to the sorrow, or hardships that the musician is going through. Blues music reflects on the dark times in the musician’s life. From reading the brief bio on James Baldwin we can see that his life could be a typical blues song. Through his character Sonny the blues is portrayed through Sonny’s life and music. In James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” we see several examples of symbolism, but the two that enriches the story the most are light and darkness these symbols are used all throughout “Sonny’s Blues.”
In our lives we have moments of lightness and darkness, but in each of the moments of light there is darkness, and in the dark moments there is light. But these are the defining moments of our lives, the moments of growth. Where are meant to learn from our mistakes, so we can be able to grow. With Sonny we see that he does not take his mistake and grow from them, his actions do not mature. In the sufferings of life there is always hope and Sonny experiences that.
We as humans hope that our lives as positive and hope that our life is full of light but that is always not the case, the windows in Sonny’s life portray the good that happen as he grows into adult hood. The narrator said “But there’s …show more content…
The darkness can be very overwhelming which is what we see happening when the narrator talks about the housing projects and how dark of a place they are. The darkness also becomes reality for Sonny when he was in jail because it was a bad thing that had happened when Sonny was arrested because the darkness was keeping him from learning from his mistakes. When the mother is talking about how not only is it the bad boys who get caught up within the trouble but its everyone we can infer people get caught up into trouble because of how powerful the darkness is. So we see that to make it out of the dark times we have to have someone to help