Sonny’s Blues

READ AND ANNOTATE “SONNY’S BLUES.”

1. Copy and paraphrase: Select two short key passages. Copy (type) them and annotate them.

2. think about your passages: Find connections between the two passages. Brainstorm further connections and consider them in the context of the story as a whole.

3. Identify the most sifnificant connection you found and explain why you think it is the most meaningful. Explain how it fits into your reading of the story as a whole. Type this brief paragraph below your paraphrases.

Lengh: No longer than 1 1/2 page double – spaced.

You can find the story in internet .

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Baldwin, J. (1965). Going to meet the man: Sonny’s Blues. New York: Dial Press.

Sonny’s blues is a story about a young talented musician who gets caught in a heroin burst. This story is written in the first-person singular narrative style. It is told by a teacher in Harlem who has escaped life in the ghetto and created a better one for himself. It opens up with a crisis when Sonny’s brother. Who is the narrator and an algebra teacher in high school reads a story in the newspaper about his brother having been caught in a heroin raid the night before. The middle of the story talks about the narrator’s past life. It is a flashback where he remembers a conversation with his mother where she made him promise that………………….

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