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Finding Light And Beauty In Sonny's Blues

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Tiffanny Bailey
Leonard Miller
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02 September 2015
Finding Light and Beauty in the Darkness of "Sonny's Blues". In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" the narrator gives you a glimpse into the hardships and woes of Sonny, the main character, how his story unfolds, and how he overall can find hope for the future in blues and in his family. Throughout the story there is constant reference to darkness and suffering that is seemingly inevitable, this is best described on page 54, "And when light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness. He knows that every time this happens he's moved just a little closer to that darkness outside." This small piece of the story shows just one example of how Baldwin underlined this feeling of impending suffering throughout the story, that the brothers were fighting. …show more content…

But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it, to keep on top of it, and to make it seem well, like you. Like you did something, all right, and now you're suffering for it. You know?" This signifies the biggest struggle of life, finding a way deal with the suffering in your life. In the story, Sonny had been trying to use drugs as a deterrent, as something to help take the edge off of that darkness in his life, or to give a reason as to why he needed to suffer. Personally I can understand the feeling the need to know why darkness is following you. When there is a Ireason why things are the way they are it helps you understand and offers some

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