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SySonny's Blue
Sonny have a brother - the narrative - who is working as a teacher. The narrative is worried about sonny's future, because he don't know what to do in life. The one thing Sonny passive is music and he is good at it. The narrative had a flashback about his father brother - he was a guitar player - have been ran over by automobile cars multiply times told by his mother. The narrative do not want that to happen to him like his father had. Sonny was invited back to his brother home and started to practice playing the piano. Soon Sonny have realize the struggle of artists in society. Later at night both the brother went a night club and enjoy the listening to jazz. Sonny have been working hard at beginning and there were struggle to but he have overcome it the challenge in his way.

Artice
McParland, Robert P. “To the Deep Water: James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues.’” Interdisciplinary Humanities, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 131–140. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.mga.edu/login?url= http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=26673991&site=ehost-live.

Point Of View
The story " Sonny's Blue " is not told by Sonny, but by his older brother that is the narrator himself. In the story, the unnamed narrator used the work "I" meaning he is the one telling the story. At the beginning, he tell the reader he can't believed his brother is in the newspaper, was scare of what going to happen to Sonny. The narrator is telling the story of his point of view and Sonny. The story of how his brother is struggle in life and having no hope in society. The way his brother tells the is not in chronological order it go back and forth by switching from flashback to the present day. The time when he remember his mother tell the narrator about his uncle get run over by white and his father watched it happen.