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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.
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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.
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Eddie's Thoughts
i agree.

tracy's thoughts
basically the story is about sonny an dhi brother, and how they go through many things in life.
i thought the story was really good. it was like a reality stor. those kind of things happens to everyone. it was good.

Katie's Thoughts
At first the story was kind of boring, but it got better when it started telling more about Sonny's past and explaining how and why he strated doing heroin.

Eddie's Thoughts
It says that the speaker is Sonny's brother a lot, and he is an algebra teacher, but it never says that the speaker was Sonny's algebra teacher.

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...
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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.
{Funky_Jazz_Piano.jpg} 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.
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The pages are due 6/1/09
MPark
Sonny's Blues
Analysis of Sonny's Blues
-Eddie Redmon
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...
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Sonny's Blues
Analysis of Sonny's Blues
-Eddie Redmon
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...
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