1. Each group member must analyze the usage of one literary element from the following list for your story: Theme, Imagery, Diction, Style, Tone, Mood, Figurative Language, Syntax, Setting, Archetype
You must post your analysis on your group’s main page.
2. Each member must also upload an image or another piece of writing (essay, story, etc.) that represents your group’s story.
3. On the discussion board, each member must initiate a dialogue about one of your group member analysis.
The pages are due 6/1/09
MPark Sonny's Blues Analysis of Sonny's Blues
Imagery (Eddie Redmon) - Most of the imagery in this story is negative. The story is second person format so the images are portraid by the speaker. The speaker in the story is Sonny's Algebra teacher. He/she gives us images about sonny when he became of age of the other boys in the class. The speaker gives us images of sonny being a bright, open, gentlemen when he was as old as the other boys in his class. Towards the middle of the story the imagery was more depressing. Like, the imagery of sonny's mother were worried ones, and some of sonny's imagery was that he was still a good boy but he did drugs. The Imagery at the end of the story completely changes for sonny. After he confesses to the that he was using and abusing drugs the speaker was invited by sonny to watch him play that night at the club. The speaker's imagery of sonny is proud and happy for sonny now that he is not using drugs anymore...
Read the story and follow the directions Mr.Park listed above. To help Mr.Park out a little, be sure to insert a "horizontal rule" after what you type, so that Mr.Park can distinguish easily between our work. The horizontal rule button is on the editor that pops up when you click to edit the page. Have fun!
-Sazin Rahim
Style (Christopher Nickelson)
Throughout this story I found myself always on the edge of my seat because of the constant change in style. The author used a variation of long sentences and short sentences to create meaning, and also to show the mood at that point in time. If he used a long sentence, it usually meant that the speaker had great feeling for what he was talking about. And for short sentences, he was holding something back that he knew, or didn't feel comfortable talking about.
This pattern continues during this story, creating suspense, in hope that the speaker would tell more and more, but right when you wanted that last detail, he cut you off from the story, leaving you to crave more.
This was an excellent tool to use, because the story did lack action, and this way, you couldn't be bored.
Tone (Sazin Rahim) - The Tone of this story has its its positives and negatives all throughout the story. The speaker starts off the story in an almost traumatized tone. The speaker's brother, Sonny, was raided by the police for Heroin use and the story was in the newspaper. From then on, the speaker switches his tone to a thoughtful and moody tone. He flashes back to his childhood, when his mother told him about the speaker's uncle and how he died a terrible death. The tone during this passage went back to that same sad, mellow tone, but towards the end of the passage, his tone becomes a bit more bouncier and easier to cope with. Towards the end of the story, Sonny confesses to the speaker that he had been abusing Heroin and wanted the speaker to come to a club with him that night. The speaker's tone switches to being outraged and severely mad at Sonny for his immature antics.The speaker's tone then becomes calm and collected after he sees Sonny perform that night.
Sonny, was a pianist who played Jazz music.
Theme(Katie Posey)- The theme in this story is suffering. Throughout the story Baldwin tells about the suffering Sonny went through. His father always wanting him to be the best, and the main point of the story, Sonny's drug problem. Sonny suffered with his drug problem until his apartment was raided by the police, and he was taken to a rehab clinic/prisin, it never specifies. Sonny suffers with his heroin addiction for awhile, and doesn't really talk about it after, until he hears the suffering of a woman singing on the street outside of his house. Then he lets it out and starts telling his brother about how he got into drugs and why.
The stroy also tells about some racism, when the narrator is remembering the last thing his mother told him. His uncle got killed by drunk white men trying to play a game on a poor innocent black man minding his own business.
Setting (Tracy Montes) The setting in this story is in many places. The setting helps create the mood,style imaginary, etc. Without the settings, th story would be lost and confusing. The place where most of this story took place was at Sonny's brothers house. That is here most of the issues and things occured. When Sonny went of the the Navy is when everything changed i n his life. That is the place where he started getting into all the drugs and heroin. If the setting is in a different enviroment then the whole scene changes in my mind. While i was reading through out the story my mind kept changing pictures on what the setting and place looked like. Everytime the story went to a new setting, the story got more intersesting.
You must post your analysis on your group’s main page.
2. Each member must also upload an image or another piece of writing (essay, story, etc.) that represents your group’s story.
3. On the discussion board, each member must initiate a dialogue about one of your group member analysis.
The pages are due 6/1/09
MPark
Sonny's Blues
Analysis of Sonny's Blues
Imagery (Eddie Redmon) - Most of the imagery in this story is negative. The story is second person format so the images are portraid by the speaker. The speaker in the story is Sonny's Algebra teacher. He/she gives us images about sonny when he became of age of the other boys in the class. The speaker gives us images of sonny being a bright, open, gentlemen when he was as old as the other boys in his class. Towards the middle of the story the imagery was more depressing. Like, the imagery of sonny's mother were worried ones, and some of sonny's imagery was that he was still a good boy but he did drugs. The Imagery at the end of the story completely changes for sonny. After he confesses to the that he was using and abusing drugs the speaker was invited by sonny to watch him play that night at the club. The speaker's imagery of sonny is proud and happy for sonny now that he is not using drugs anymore...
Sonny's Blues
Analysis & Summary
Read the story and follow the directions Mr.Park listed above. To help Mr.Park out a little, be sure to insert a "horizontal rule" after what you type, so that Mr.Park can distinguish easily between our work. The horizontal rule button is on the editor that pops up when you click to edit the page. Have fun!
-Sazin Rahim
Style (Christopher Nickelson)
Throughout this story I found myself always on the edge of my seat because of the constant change in style. The author used a variation of long sentences and short sentences to create meaning, and also to show the mood at that point in time. If he used a long sentence, it usually meant that the speaker had great feeling for what he was talking about. And for short sentences, he was holding something back that he knew, or didn't feel comfortable talking about.
This pattern continues during this story, creating suspense, in hope that the speaker would tell more and more, but right when you wanted that last detail, he cut you off from the story, leaving you to crave more.
This was an excellent tool to use, because the story did lack action, and this way, you couldn't be bored.
Tone (Sazin Rahim) - The Tone of this story has its its positives and negatives all throughout the story. The speaker starts off the story in an almost traumatized tone. The speaker's brother, Sonny, was raided by the police for Heroin use and the story was in the newspaper. From then on, the speaker switches his tone to a thoughtful and moody tone. He flashes back to his childhood, when his mother told him about the speaker's uncle and how he died a terrible death. The tone during this passage went back to that same sad, mellow tone, but towards the end of the passage, his tone becomes a bit more bouncier and easier to cope with. Towards the end of the story, Sonny confesses to the speaker that he had been abusing Heroin and wanted the speaker to come to a club with him that night. The speaker's tone switches to being outraged and severely mad at Sonny for his immature antics.The speaker's tone then becomes calm and collected after he sees Sonny perform that night.
Theme(Katie Posey)- The theme in this story is suffering. Throughout the story Baldwin tells about the suffering Sonny went through. His father always wanting him to be the best, and the main point of the story, Sonny's drug problem. Sonny suffered with his drug problem until his apartment was raided by the police, and he was taken to a rehab clinic/prisin, it never specifies. Sonny suffers with his heroin addiction for awhile, and doesn't really talk about it after, until he hears the suffering of a woman singing on the street outside of his house. Then he lets it out and starts telling his brother about how he got into drugs and why.
The stroy also tells about some racism, when the narrator is remembering the last thing his mother told him. His uncle got killed by drunk white men trying to play a game on a poor innocent black man minding his own business.
Setting (Tracy Montes) The setting in this story is in many places. The setting helps create the mood,style imaginary, etc. Without the settings, th story would be lost and confusing. The place where most of this story took place was at Sonny's brothers house. That is here most of the issues and things occured. When Sonny went of the the Navy is when everything changed i n his life. That is the place where he started getting into all the drugs and heroin. If the setting is in a different enviroment then the whole scene changes in my mind. While i was reading through out the story my mind kept changing pictures on what the setting and place looked like. Everytime the story went to a new setting, the story got more intersesting.