Sonny's Blues

[connorb11]

Sometimes people can be very much alike, but make different decisions, and thus end up in vastly different places.  This is what happened in the short story Sonny’s Blues, by James Baldwin.  The two brothers both grew up in the projects; one of them went on to start a blues band, and became addicted to heroin.  The other went on to become a

Comments

[myraclemommie]

I use to always sit and ponder about how a person became homeless and my answer would always come back to choices. People make choices everyday in their lives and the smallest choice you make can affect someone drastically.

[captamerikyle45]

Good point, how can 2 boy grow up together and become that different? It's interesting to see the two extremes

[nickjackson216]

I liked that they were able to reconcile at the end.