“Sonny’s Blues” is a short story by James Baldwin. It’s about a boy’s growth to adulthood in a Harlem ghetto. His name is Sonny. He is sentenced to a government institution do to his selling and using of heroin. Sonny moved in with his brother, who he has not seen in 5 years. Sonny’s brother, the narrator of the story, is 8 years older than Sonny is. He is married and teaches algebra …showed first 75 words of 735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 735 total…of him. The narrator was now transformed with joy and happiness. He was also full of sadness as well. Sonny was happy that he was playing the piano. The thing that he loves the most. Music means life itself to Sonny. Maybe he’ll find what the drugs gave him or neglected him in life. Now besides his music, he has his brother. Sonny’s brother now understood Sonny, but more importantly he understood himself.