Sonny`s Blues by James Baldwin

Running Head : Essay about James Baldwin 's Sonny 's Blues ' Ending

The Pros and Cons if Sonny 's Blues ' has a Different Ending (Name (Course (University

The Sonny 's Blues novel of James Baldwin has a very fundamental and decisive ending . The scene of the ending is in the jazz club where Sonny , brother of the undisclosed narrator in the story , is one of the musicians . The narrator agreed to with his brother to the club which he prejudged as full of darkness not beneficial and favorable to his brother . Sonny has an

addiction to heroin which made him more distant to his brother because the narrator wants his brother to have a good life This good life he is speaking of is like his life where he sees all things under idealistic view . But in this ending , the narrator learned to listen ' to his brother about his addiction

If the ending could have been different , one of the pros behind is that the message of the story could have been different . The symbolisms and the idioms within the story will relate different notions to different readers . There is also the possibility that the impact of this novel to the literature world could have been different as well . It may lead to a more famous James Baldwin if it turned out better or an average Baldwin because this novel has been the beginning of James Baldwin recognition in the literature world . There is also the possibility that the scope of readers it covers is wider aside from the depressed and anguished . The impact could have been better if the ending is revised in a different way as long as the continuity of thoughts of the story must not be disintegrated or disengaged

The original ending is very pro ' in relation to the whole story because it reveals and bares the degree of changes in the narrator 's life and view . This is further emphasized through a flashback of the narrator 's last conversation with his mother where his mother warned and requested him to hold onto his brother and to not let him fall no matter what is happening to his brother and no matter how evil he gets to his brother . She told the narrator that he might get evil to his brother many times but he must not forget what his mother told and requested him ADDIN EN .CITE Baldwin2002335J BaldwinCarley Rees Bogarad and Jan Zlotnik SchmidtSonny apos s BluesLegacies 349-3732nd2002Forth WorthHarcourt College Publishers (Baldwin 2002 . Without thinking , the narrator made a promise to his mother that he will not allow anything to happen to Sonny . Her dying mother smiled because she was amused of the innocence behind that promise . Through the ending in the jazz club where Sonny was on stage playing and the narrator met his brother 's friends , fellow musicians , and patrons , he saw the appreciation they had to Sonny in a way the narrator is never was to his brother . The narrator starts to...