Sonny,s Blues

The main character in Sonny’s blues Is Sonny’s brother who has no name. He looks at the way Sonny’s life has turned out and tries to understand what happed to him. The bother learns of what happen to Sonny on his way to work one morning. Sonny was arrested for the possession and sale of heroin. The brother, who is a teacher, describes how he feels all day long to show the way he keeps his emotion bottled inside. He says it feels like “a great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long”. The brother in the end of the story finds a way to reconnect to Sonny.
Baldwin shows that Sonny may have become addicted to drugs because of all the emotion he kept inside. Both of the br...