Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin7/5/2023 ![]() The narrator feels this ice go through him during the whole story and not just in the very start of Sonny’s Blues. It kept melting, sending trickles of ice water all up and down my veins, but it never got less” (Baldwin 17). The image of the ice block in the narrator's stomach is one of the primary uses of imagery in Sonny's Blues. With the imagery shown in Sonny's Blues, readers see how two people with such differences can support each other no matter the difficulties in front of them. With the help of their mother, the narrator made sure to not take Sonny for granted despite his own personal problems. They would do their best to work through their problems in their own way. These images displayed in Sonny’s Blues showed that when it came to the relationship between Sonny and the narrator due to how the brothers would work together. Throughout Sonny's Blues, the imagery used by James Baldwin would help readers understand the relationship between the narrator and Sonny. ![]() Both Sonny and the narrator go through their own personal trials throughout the story to figure out how to make things right for each other. With the narrator, the rest of Sonny's family and friends along with the readers of Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin would always wonder about Sonny's misadventures. ![]() “What’s going to happen to him now?” (Baldwin 21) was the question Sonny's brother, the narrator was curious about throughout Sonny's Blues. ![]()
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