Using characterization and symbolism in the story “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin conveys that suffering can bring about unique insight and creativity. James Baldwin uses characterization to portray that struggle against confinement can induce unique insight and ingenuity. Although more content with it than Sonny, the narrator also believes that Harlem is a dismal place to grow up, illustrated by his observations that the boys in Harlem were characterized to be “filled with rage. All they really
The narrator of Sonny’s Blues never give himself a name in the whole article, but he really got himself playing the main role by making the story told in his own perspective of views. In my opinion the character made an unjust choice. The narrator is seven years older the sonny. When sonny was little, he had always being a big-brother-like brother, takes care of sonny; tells him to go to school and what instrument is better for him to play; sorts of keeps him out of troubles. I can see his love to
of by one of our a family member’s and why does this all happen in the first place?” (Meriam). The posed question aids in transitioning the first paragraph into to the following analysis in a flowing and easy to understand manner. I enjoy the way that you described James Baldwin’s fashion of telling the story “Sonny’s Blues” as, “precisely presents this situation and takes a deeper view in which how human beings deal with their suffering within life struggles due to misunderstandings” (Miriam). It