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Sonny's Blues Summary & Study Guide Description
Sonny's Blues Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Sonny's Blues Plot Summary
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"Sonny's Blues" opens as the narrator learns from a newspaper that his younger brother, Sonny, has been arrested for dealing heroin. The narrator is taking the subway to his high-school teaching job. At the end of the school day, the "insular and mocking" laughter of his students reminds him that as youths he and Sonny had been rilled with rage and had known "two darknesses"—the one of their lives and the one of the movies that made them momentarily forget about their lives. Leaving the school, the narrator comes across an old friend of Sonny's in the school yard.
While Sonny's friend and the narrator talk about Sonny's arrest, they tell each other some of their fears. In front of a bar that blasts "black and bouncy" music, the friend, who is not given a name, says that he "can't much help old Sonny no more." This angers the...
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