- Oct 2024
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I wanted to leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs. And then, when I ran away, that's what I was running from-really.
When he got deeper into music, he was becoming more intertwined in the drugs he was taking.
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helplessly young, looking old
these two contrast so well that they compare beautifully to the sentiment Sonny is trying to portray
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I started down the steps, whistling to keep from crying, I kept whistling to myself
the importance of whistling and tunes!
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Sonny was at that piano playing for his life
and yet sonnys brother did nothing!
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"They got a piano at Isabel's. You can practice on it.
The studying of Blues cheers up Sonny
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"I just told you. To get out of Harlem."
He knew harlem was a situation that he didnt want to be in , but he had no control over his situation. The brother making decisions on his life, wasnt active, and chances are doping was his escape and way to get out of his own shell in his mind.
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I'm thinking about my future," said Sonny, grimly. "I think about it all the time."
He reminds me of myself in the fact, that I
m slower to speak on things Im passionate about, but once I do im decided and set on it because I`ve pondered on it before. -
And when light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness.
This is what Sonny experienced when, his father died.
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Daddy called "good- time people."
If you think again by the connection Sonny had to his father, I think this affected his reasoning for going into Jazz
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I'd never played the role of the oldest brother quite so seriously before, had scarcely ever, in fact, asked Sonny a damn thing.
Imagine how lonely Sonny felt, by his own with a mother who was waiting to see her husband in death, and an oder brother who`s absent.
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wood of that guitar when it give, and he heard them strings go flying,
The emphasis on music and tunes is very prevalent in Sonny`s Blue, which showcases the importance of the word " Blues " when you think about in the musical standpoint, Blues can also represent sadness, and someone feeling down.
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But something deep and watchful in the child knows that this is bound to end, is already ending. In a moment someone will get up and turn on the light.
*What
s significant about this comment to me, is the authors use of light and darkness. He has an unique take on it, and this is especially noticeable when he makes this statement, about when the light comes on the kid is filled with dark. Its like Bane from Batman who has a well known statement about how he was born in the darkness, and the difference of this versus somebody like batman who adopted it. This child and the environment had turned so dark that light represented having to experience life going on. This is a beautiful way of explaining how life experiences aren`t always so light and dark, and the different ways light can be perceived to those born in the dark. * -
he was whistling to himself, and he had his guitar slung over his shoulder.
This stands out to me, because of the time where he was in the courtyard and heard a child whistling a tune like a bird. That moment means more in retrospect, and I can understand why the whistling stood out him so much then.
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I almost whispered it, I don't know why.
In this moment its clear that he understands the general idea of what occurs, when one is sent to rehab and comes back into the world. Yet he is struggling believing that any hope for his brother, any form of life and structure outside of rehab. The author wants to display this, and so he uses his whispering, in a unsure mannering as a representation.
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