The Struggle In Sonny's Blues By James Baldwin

Sonny’s blues by James Baldwin is a story about a young man named sonny and his trials and tribulations throughout his life. Sonny’s story is told from his brothers point of view. The story starts off with the arrest of sonny in the newspaper and his brother finding out about it. When the narrator first heard of the news he was shocked. He could not properly teach his class. At the end of his day he just so happens to run into one of sonny’s old friends. Sonny’s old friend confess that he feels like it is his fault that sonny got arrested and got hooked onto drugs.
Sometime after the narrator finds out that his brother is in jail his daughter dies. It was not until the narrator Sonny’s niece dies that the narrator tries to contact Sonny. When sonny receives the message, he responds to the narrator swiftly. Sonny admitted to his brother that he was too ashamed to reach out first. That he felt like he had caused too much pain and suffering already not to add to the fact that now he is in jail for using and selling horse (heroin). The two brother go on to discuss how when sonny is released from jail that he should move back to Harlem and move in with the narrator’s wife, which is Sonny’s sister in law.
When Sonny moved into his brother’s house, the narrator finds himself about to search in Sonny’s
Sonny and the narrator love each other very much. But the two cannot get passed their differences in their lives and the choices that they make. Their love often makes them fuss and fight. Sonny and the narrator have different ideals of right and wrong. Everywhere they turn they seem to bump heads. The narrator see’s music as evil and the reason Sonny got addicted to drugs. But Sonny see’s music as his pain reliever his muse and his way of sharing what is wrong with him. Sonny uses his piano playing skills to better himself as a