Reflection Of Sonny's Blues

Reflection Of Sonny's Blues

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin is about the suffering two brothers from Harlem try to reoncile with. The story is by The Narrator Sonny's older brother, who is unnamed. As the reader, we only have the narrator's, perspective, memories, and thoughts to understand Sonny's blues and how Sonny's blues is the reflection of the African American community and its suffering in Harlem. Using the reader's response to analyze this story, James Baldwin using Suffering as the main theme to prove that, to appreciate the love and all that is good one must go through suffering and darkness to see the light in the world.



Each of the main characters Mamma, Sonny and the Narrator, all represent a part in the suffering that the black communities go through. Mama is who held the family together the. The Narrator who was the one who couldn't stand to stay in the community so escapes from it. In the pursuit to escape the relationships with his family suffers. Sonny the younger brother who brings pain to himself because of the community and lifestyle that surrounds him.



Mama had to be aware everyone else's burdens to help them survive the suffering they dealt with. At The Narrator daughter's funeral, Mama spoke about the pain she had took on from his father. Mama finally explaining to The Narrator explained "I know you never saw your daddy cry. But I did –– many of times before."(Baldwin 8). Allowing his father to grieve, enabled him to cope and continue to live a life that could move on from

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